It was my understanding that it was the will of the committee, as well as the mover, Mr. Atamanenko, to establish a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food to deal with listeriosis and food safety.
I want the following to be very clear. In this particular case, the subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food must be made up of permanent members of the main committee or associate members. If permanent members of the health committee are on our list of associate members, that is fine. Those individuals can be members of our subcommittee. If they are not on the list but we want to include them, then we will have to modify our list of associate members in order to include them. Then the subcommittee will be free to include them or not.
Furthermore, if the Standing Committee on Health wants to report on food safety, it can do so but it cannot use our mandate to do that. The subcommittee's mandate is actually created under the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food. That being said, nothing prevents the Standing Committee on Health from undertaking its own investigation or study on that topic.
In terms of your last point, I would like to point out that if the standing committee would like to report on its proceedings to the House, it would have the power to do so. It would probably be possible because the committee will have studied the issue.