Beyond scope of bill; setting a condition

<div class="DecisionMain" role="main"> <p class="decision-chapter">Amendments to the Content of Bills / Report Stage</p> <p class="d-DecisionDate"> <time>May 14, 1970</time> </p> <p class="e-Debates">Journals <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.HOC_2802_116_01/750">p. 807</a></p> <p class="e-Debates">Debates <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2802_07/367?r=0&amp;s=3">pp. 6985-6</a></p> <div> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Background</h2> </div> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">During report stage consideration of Bill S-5, an Act to amend the Oil and Gas Production and Conservation Act, Mr. Barnett (Comox-Alberni) proposed a motion in amendment, on behalf of Mr. Howard (Skeena), that this act shall come into force following a settlement mutually acceptable to the Crown and the native people of the North. The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bechard) ruled immediately.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Issue</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Can a motion in amendment attach a condition to the coming into force of the bill?</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Decision</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">No. The motion in amendment is out of order.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Reasons given by the Acting Speaker</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">The motion in amendment seeks to introduce the question of treaty rights of certain people in the north. It is therefore in the nature of a substantive motion and is beyond the scope of the present bill. An amendment is also out of order if it is dependent upon amendments already negatived. Because this same motion has already been proposed during consideration of a different bill and ruled out of order, the same decision must apply on this occasion.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Sources cited</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Beauchesne, 4th ed., p. 285, c. 406. Journals, June 5, I969, p. I125.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">References</h2> <p class="MsoNormal">Debates, June 5, 1969, <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2801_09/655">pp. 9801-5</a>.</p> </div>