Ruling
October 19, 1999
Motions in amendment: grouping amendments; motions deleting the clauses of a schedule
Hon. Gilbert Parent
Speaker of the House
Ruling Text
The Deputy Speaker:
The Notice Paper contains 157 motions in amendment with respect to report stage of Bill C-6.
The motions will be grouped for debate as follows.
Group No. 1, Motions Nos. 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 27 to 33, 36 to 43, 47 to 49, 57, 59 to 97, 100 to 157.
Group No. 2, Motions Nos. 3, 4, 6 to 8, 11 to 26, 34, 35, 44 to 46, 50 and 51.
Group No. 3, Motions Nos. 52 to 56, 58, 98 and 99.
The voting order for each group is available from the Clerk. The Chair will repeat this order for the House as each vote is taken.
Members are of course aware that the Notice Paper contains many motions at report stage with respect to Bill C‐6.
Motions Nos. 100 to 155 are of concern to the Chair because they depart from usual House practice. These motions would drop all clauses in schedule 1. Normally, a single motion would suffice.
I have decided to allow these motions at this time. However, in the future only one motion will be accepted. I have so instructed the clerks in Journals Branch. They will advise members wishing to place such motions on notice that these would not be accepted.
P0508-e 36-2 1999-10-19
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Holding
"While multiple motions to delete individual clauses of a schedule are permitted in this specific instance, they depart from usual practice, and in the future, only a single motion to achieve this outcome will be accepted by the Chair."
AI Summary
The Speaker allows multiple motions to delete clauses from a bill's schedule for one last time, ruling that future attempts must be made via a single motion.
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- Educational
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- Report Stage
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