Are there further comments before the chair rules?
Seeing none, I note that this amendment does propose to modify sections of the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Act.
As the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, second edition, states, “...an amendment is inadmissible if it proposes to amend a statute that is not before the committee or a section of the parent Act, unless the latter is specifically amended by a clause of the bill”.
Since the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Act is not being amended by Bill C-51, it is therefore the opinion of the chair that the amendment is inadmissible.
(Clauses 61 and 62 agreed to)
We will now go to proposed new clause 63 in amendment NDP-27.