Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu.
With respect to Amendment BQ-40, I must make a ruling.
Bill C-13 amends the Official Languages Act by providing for certain measures to advance the equality of status and use of English and French in Canadian society. The amendment seeks to remove English from certain measures and remove references to anglophone minorities from the bill.
House of Commons Procedure and Practice, third edition, at page 770, states the following:
An amendment to a bill that was referred to committee after second reading is out of order if it is beyond the scope and principle of the bill,
In the opinion of the chair, for the reasons outlined, the amendment is contrary to the principle of the bill that passed second reading in the House of Commons.
Therefore, I rule this amendment to be inadmissible.