Industry committee  It's the chair's decision always. The chair represents the Speaker of the House. When the Speaker of the House rules on anything, he receives advice from either one of us as table officers. It goes to the same idea. We give advice. The chair can overrule the advice—

Industry committee  The committee can also do that. Once the chair has ruled, there is the possibility to appeal the ruling of the chair, and then it becomes a vote of the committee to either adopt or reject the—

Industry committee  Every one that would be inadmissible, yes. They're not all inadmissible.

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  May I add something else?

Industry committee  Let's say the chair rules an amendment inadmissible and the committee decides to overrule the chair. There's always the possibility that a member could raise a point of order in the House at report stage and seek the advice of the Speaker. The Speaker would then turn to the same

Industry committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  You need to call the amendment.

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Nantel, taking out clause 2 of the bill simply removes the idea that the bill would come into force by the application of an order. As a result, the bill will come into force upon royal assent. That is the difference.

Canadian Heritage committee  If you do not want that, no.

Industry committee  I can take a crack at it. I'm not sure there's any enforcement mechanism. It's up to the department, I suppose, to report. If they don't do it, and as parliamentarians realize that the reporting mechanism wasn't made, they could bring it up to the Speaker, I suppose, and make it

Human Resources committee  Do you have a copy of the bill by any chance?

Human Resources committee  The first line of clause 5 of the bill, 5.1, says, “Within three years”. In French, it says, “Dans les cinq ans”.

Human Resources committee  If you recall, the Speaker ruled on the bill and indicated that those parts of the bill needed a royal recommendation and the bill would not be able to proceed to the third reading, if those parts were in the bill, as they were at the time. That is the reason they need to be take

Human Resources committee  A minister can.