Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, I am speaking with regard to the Vimy trip commemorating the 90th anniversary. It starts, I believe, around April 5. It's come to my attention that there's just a slight bit of an issue with the perception of a minister taking members of Parliament instead of additional veterans and/or their representatives. A way to get around that is to allow the minister the opportunity to take additional veterans--or veterans, period--with him in the official delegation.
If we move a motion agreeable among all of us saying that the committee would like, as a committee, to travel to the Vimy Ridge memorial to represent all parties and to represent Canada as well in conjunction with the minister's trip, there's an opportunity for us. I would like to seek unanimous consent to move a motion and to waive the 48 hours. We could at least give our chairperson and our researcher the opportunity to ascertain the logistics of that, so that this committee itself would be able to travel, because we ourselves haven't travelled internationally yet. They would be able to ascertain the opportunity for this committee to go to Vimy for the 90th anniversary of that memorial.
It's April 5 to April 9.