Mr. Speaker, I will not spend a lot of time on these two motions because they are exactly the same as the last grouping we considered.
These are again just technical amendments. I want to read for the record what they are and give a short explanation of Motions Nos. 9 and 10. That will explain to opposition members what they are for. If they would like a discussion a little more far ranging than these two motions, I suppose that is their prerogative. However, I do not want to delay the passage of the bill any further.
Clause 50 is being amended in order to take into account a change made to a section of the Children's Special Allowances Act due to the passage of Bill C-54.
The House will recall that Bill C-54 is a technical amendments bill passed in the last session which amended the Old Age Security Act, the Canada pension plan, the Children's Special Allowances Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act. Bill C-54, adopted by Parliament in the last session, already incorporates this wording change. This is another instance of pairing. When we get there, clause 104, which contains conditional aspects of this wording change to the HRD bill, will be deleted. We did that under the previous group. We have already done that.
In Motion No. 10 clause 76 is being amended in three places. It calls for the addition of a subclause to clause 76 to reflect the fact that there will now be two sections to clause 76 rather than a single clause.
Proposal (b) incorporates a change made to the section of the Old Age Security Act due to the passage of Bill C-54, the same technical bill I mentioned earlier.
Proposal (c) incorporates a further change to the Old Age Security Act due to the passage of Bill C-54 as well. Since Bill C-54 predates the HRD bill, this proposal also updates the title of the responsible minister to reflect the title of the Minister of Human Resources Development.
All of the above proposals reflect an instance of pairing again. The conditional aspect of this change is included in section 104 of the HRD bill. Section 104 will be deleted when we get there.
There we have it, the very dry and somewhat complex discussion of why we have had to make some changes. In defence of the government as it relates to the comments of my colleague from the Reform Party, it is pretty difficult to give her these amendments too far in advance because when the House prorogued it took time for the bill to be looked at technically by the experts in the department to make sure it reflected the new reality.
It is not our intention to be secretive or to be undemocratic. These things take on a life of their own. I assure the member that she can take my word for it and the word of the government that these are just technical in nature and do not have any implication with regard to the solid content of the bill and what the department will be all about.
I take this opportunity to thank the House for taking the time and being patient in listening to the explanation of these amendments, which are necessary to make the bill reflective of reality.