Thank you, Chair.
I have no problem with concurring with the minister's remarks. What I do have a challenge with is what follows after the last comma, which is “the committee concur in the minister's remarks and report them to the House.”
We all know, as experienced parliamentarians, that this is intended to generate a concurrence debate in the House of Commons, which takes away valuable time from the legislative agenda and stands in the way of valuable measures being passed for the benefit of Canadians.
With that, I wish to introduce the following amendment.
It's that the words after the final comma in the last sentence, which are “the committee concur in the minister's remarks and report them to the House” be stricken. Everything else remains the same. The comma would be changed to a period after the word “Canada”.