Statement
February 5, 1973
Authorizing bill; Appropriation Act
Hon. Lucien Lamoureux
Speaker of the House
Ruling Text
There are numerous examples of interdependent bills being considered concurrently by the House. Interrelated provisions can be found almost annually in the budgetary taxation bills. Only when substantial provisions of a bill or a related estimate were altered or amended so that one would no longer be consistent with the other, would it be necessary to resolve the difference at the Committee of the Whole or the report stage of the second bill. As an alternative approach, consideration of this bill and the item in the Supplementary Estimates taken in all its stages could be set aside. This would not only involve the approval of the estimate, but would also, in effect, mean amending a statute of Parliament through an item in the Estimates. "This procedure in the past has always been vigorously resisted by Members."
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Holding
"Amending a statute of Parliament through an item in the Estimates is a procedurally improper course of action that has historically been opposed by the House."
AI Summary
The Speaker's ruling clarifies that amending a statute through an item in the Estimates is procedurally improper and has been historically resisted by Parliament.
AI Analysis
- Outcome
- Other
- Tone
- Educational
- Procedural Stage
- Government Orders
- Significance
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