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April 8, 1975
Content of Bills / Infringing on Financial Initiative of the Crown April 8, 1975 Journals pp. 420-1 Debates p. 4615 Background Prior to allowing debate on the second reading motion of Bill C-234,...
The Speaker ruled a private Member's bill out of order for infringing on the financial initiative of the Crown by proposing an expenditure without a royal recommendation.
February 11, 1975
Amendments and Subamendments to Motions / Subamendment Relevant to Amendment February 11, 1975 Journals p. 286 Debates pp. 3121-2 Background During debate on an amendment proposed to the second...
The Speaker ruled a subamendment out of order because it was not strictly relevant to the main amendment.
February 6, 1975
The amendment is a statement of opposition to some parts of the bill rather than an expression of a principle. Even if the amendment could be held to express some principle, it is clearly opposed...
The Speaker ruled an amendment inadmissible at second reading because it only opposed some provisions of the bill, not its entire principle.
December 19, 1974
An amendment at second reading may not introduce a new proposition or a new concept. "An independent commission" is a new concept. The Member's amendment stated explicitly his idea of the subject...
The Speaker ruled an amendment inadmissible at second reading because it introduced a new concept not contained within the principle of the bill.
December 18, 1974
With respect to the specific case, the provisions of the bill widen the class of items exempted from a tax without changing the tax itself or the general description of exemption contained in the...
The Speaker rules that a bill need only be based on, not identical to, its preceding ways and means motion to be procedurally in order.
December 16, 1974
The purpose of first reading is to ensure the undoubted right of any Member to put before the House in the form of a bill his views and opinions and to allow the House an opportunity to study the...
The Speaker permitted a bill's introduction, ruling that a non-material error in its Royal Recommendation was not sufficient grounds to halt the first reading.
December 13, 1974
Amendments to Motions on Progress of Bills / Second Reading December 13, 1974 Journals p. 195 Debates pp. 2250-1 Background During debate on the second reading of Bill C-25, an Act to protect...
The provided text indicates the 'Second reading' stage of a bill, not a Speaker's ruling.
December 9, 1974
According to Beauchesne's Fourth Edition, a committee may only consider those matters which have been committed to it by the House and is bond by, and does not have the liberty to depart from, the...
The Speaker ruled a committee recommendation out of order for exceeding its mandate as defined by its order of reference from the House.
November 28, 1974
The fact that the amendment would appear to add a totally new clause to the definition section, which in turn would add a totally new principle to the application of the bill as a whole, offends...
A Speaker's ruling deems an amendment inadmissible for introducing a new principle beyond the scope of the bill.
April 23, 1974
"... even with the wildest imagination", the Member's comments have nothing to do with the bill under consideration. Members must limit themselves to the principle of the bill before the House.
The Speaker sustained a point of order, ruling a Member's comments irrelevant to the bill at second reading.