Selected Decisions of Speaker Gilbert Parent 1994 - 2001
Financial Procedures / Supply
Opposition motion: amendment changing the scope of the debate
Debates, p. 8095
Context
On November 22, 1994, during the business of supply and debate on the motion of Deborah Grey (Beaver River) on Members of Parliament Retirement Allowance, Don Boudria (Chief Government Whip) moved an amendment. The Acting Speaker (Shirley Maheu) took the amendment under advisement.[1]
Resolution
Later in the sitting the Acting Speaker delivered her ruling. She ruled that the amendment was not admissible. It was foreign to the proposition set forth in the main motion and raised a new question. It provided for a debate different from that proposed in the original motion.
Decision of the Chair
The Acting Speaker: I am now ready prior to recognizing the honourable parliamentary secretary to rule on the amendment proposed by the chief government whip.
After consideration the Chair must rule that the proposed amendment by the honourable chief government whip is out of order because it goes against citation 579 of Beauchesne 6th edition as it sets forth a proposition dealing with a matter which is foreign to the proposed proposition involved in the main motion and as it raises a new question. Second, it goes against citation 929 of Beauchesne which states:
On an allotted day, during consideration of the business of supply, an amendment must not provide the basis for an entirely different debate than that proposed in the original motion.
P0601-e
35-1
1994-11-22
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