Ruling
May 21, 1970
Scope of Royal Recommendation
Hon. Lucien Lamoureux
Speaker of the House
Ruling Text
"The guiding principle in determining the effect of an amendment upon the financial initiative of the Crown is that the communication, to which the Royal Demand of recommendation is attached, must be treated as laying down once and for all... not only the amount of a charge, but also its objects, purposes, conditions and qualifications." Consequently, "it is not necessary that all objectives of a bill be recited in a financial recommendation, but rather it is financial charges or expenditures that must be covered in it".
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Holding
"A Royal Recommendation establishes the absolute and unalterable financial limits of a bill, including its amount, objects, purposes, conditions, and qualifications, and no amendment can exceed these parameters."
AI Summary
The Speaker clarifies that a Royal Recommendation definitively sets a bill's financial scope, including its amount, objects, and purposes, which cannot be expanded by amendment.
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