Thank you, Madam Chair.
Yes, you would be right, Mr. Moore. It's always the prerogative of the committee to decide what the committee wants to achieve and do, regardless of the rules. However, any amendments that are ruled inadmissible in committee would end up in the report that would be presented to the House for the reprint of the bill. If a member would rise on a point of order in the House at that point before the start of report stage, the Speaker would probably come to us and ask the same question regarding the amendment. Is the amendment inadmissible or admissible?
Of course, we would give the same analysis that we provided to the chair of the committee to the Speaker of the House. Without presuming what could happen in this case, what could happen and what has happened in the past is that the Speaker of the House could simply rule that the amendment was indeed inadmissible and still is at report stage, remove it from the report from the committee and order a new reprint of the bill. The amendment would therefore be eliminated from the bill. That's the second step past committee stage.