Chair, before we move to Ms. May's comments on her amendment, I'm wondering if I could seek clarification on the decision, on two points.
For me as a parliamentarian, it's the first time I've been involved in a committee process for legislation that has been referred before second reading. In the sense of things being able to be outside the scope of the bill, I'm wondering whether that impacts at all.
Secondly, given that it's government legislation, there have been a few amendments in this bill that have had similar rulings. I know that for private members' business, you can't supersede that prerogative, but when it comes to a government bill, is there not an ability in that case to make this type of amendment?