Infringing on financial initiative of the Crown (private Member's bill)

<div class="DecisionMain" role="main"> <p class="decision-chapter">Content of Bills / Infringing on Financial Initiative of the Crown</p> <p class="d-DecisionDate"> <time>April 25, 1975</time> </p> <p class="e-Debates">Journals <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.HOC_3001_121_01/441">p. 488</a></p> <p class="e-Debates">Debates <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3001_05/871?r=0&amp;s=1">pp. 5231-2</a></p> <div> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Background</h2> </div> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">On a motion for second reading of Bill C-235, an Act to amend the Old Age Security Act, standing in the name of Mr. Whittaker (Okanagan  Boundary), Miss Campbell (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of National Health and Welfare) raised a point of order. She maintained that the bill was not in order because it infringed on the financial initiative of the Crown.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Issue</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Can a private Member's bill which requires a Royal Recommendation be considered by the House after first reading?</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Decision</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">No. The bill is struck from the Order Paper.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Reasons given by the Deputy Speaker</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Under Standing Order 62(1) any bill which might impose a financial burden on the public treasury is to be accompanied by a Royal Recommendation. Since this bill could impose such a financial burden and since it does not have a Royal Recommendation, the Speaker cannot allow the bill in its present form to be debated at this time.</p> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">The Chair has been put into this situation too often; in this instance, if there is to be a recommendation attached to the bill because of its money implications, it should be done now.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Authorities cited</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Beauchesne, 4th ed., p. 221, c. 265. </p> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Standing Order 62(1).</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">References</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Journals, April 23, 1975, <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.HOC_3001_121_01/421">pp. 467-9</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Debates, April 23, 1975, <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3001_05/755">pp. 5115-7</a>; April 25, 1975, <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3001_05/867">pp. 5227-31</a>.</p> </div>