Okay, it is a motion on the floor.
As Chair, I am going to speak on this. You can rule me out of order.
We had a meeting scheduled for two hours, and we're over that. If anyone thinks that we're going to solve this problem with another 20 minutes, we're not. We have the opportunity to call another meeting.
It's my judgment call and I try to be fair, but we agreed as a committee that we would do the budget implementation act and we would turn to it when it was tabled in the House. We now know that we have to farm out about 12 divisions of part 4 to other committees.
I've tried to get a steering committee meeting for Monday, but we couldn't get it. I asked the clerk to check if we could get any other time next week, but we can't get it.
Now honestly, folks, if we cannot deal with this motion on the BIA today, then we can't do anything until Tuesday at a regular meeting when we're really going to try to see if we can get the minister there on the budget implementation act. The issues in the budget implementation act are important to Canadians.
In fairness to other committees, if we don't allocate to them the work they have to do, I don't know when they're going to get time to do it. We've got 24 hours booked on the break week for this committee.
That's what we're up against. I hear your motion and I know that as chair, I shouldn't talk against it, but based on my judgment, I think we're being unfair to other committees. I think we're being unfair to other Canadians if we don't deal as a committee with the issue of the budget implementation act today. I think we can call another meeting on this present issue as soon as we get the BIA out of the way.
That's where I'm at on your motion, Peter. I know you could fire me as chair for that, but that's my view and I feel fairly strongly about it.
There's a motion on the floor.