Seeking to amend clause

<div class="DecisionMain" role="main"> <p class="decision-chapter">Amendments to Motions on Progress of Bills / Second Reading</p> <p class="d-DecisionDate"> <time>February 8, 1971</time> </p> <p class="e-Debates">Journals <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.HOC_2803_117_01/285?r=0&amp;s=1">pp. 312-3</a></p> <p class="e-Debates">Debates <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2803_03/909?r=0&amp;s=1">p. 3153</a>  </p> <div> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Background</h2> </div> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">On November 30, 1970, during debate on a motion for second reading of Bill C-186, an Act to authorize the provision of moneys to meet certain capital expenditures of the Canadian National Railways System and Air Canada ..., Mr. Howe  (Wellington-Grey-Dufferin-Waterloo)  proposed an amendment that the bill be not now read a second time because it did not specify the appointment of the Auditor General of Canada as a joint auditor of the CNR. The Deputy Speaker reserved his decision on the admissibility of the amendment as he wanted to confer with the Speaker.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Issue</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Is a second reading amendment acceptable if it attempts to change a specific provision of the bill?</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Decision</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">No, an amendment of this type cannot be put during debate on motion for second reading.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Reasons given by the Deputy Speaker</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">The amendment does not oppose the principle of the bill. "It opposes or adds to the provision of [a] clause", thereby altering a detail in the bill. This might be attempted in committee or at report stage, but not at second reading.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Sources cited</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Beauchesne, 4th ed., pp. 279-80, c. 389; p. 281, c. 393(3).</p> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">May, 17th ed., pp. 527-8.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">References</h2> <p class="MsoNormal">Debates, November 30, 1970, <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2803_02/460">pp. 1592-4</a>.</p> </div>