I'm glad to see everybody's having fun here this afternoon.
In relation to Mr. Bellavance's concern, I think if the Outstanding Young Farmers happen to be here in December, as they're down for three or four days, if that could be arranged, that would be good. The intent, though, is that we're finishing off the competition, and the report on competitiveness in agriculture is to come forward by the end of the year. We agreed as a committee that that's how the schedule would be laid out.
I'm looking at this, and from our past discussions, we would come back towards the end of January, when we return after the Christmas break. If we can put something in on a day when the Outstanding Young Farmers are here, that would be wonderful. But the whole intent is to move this on.
As my colleague Mr. Lemieux has said, this committee has an opportunity to work with the minister in terms of what his consultations are. But it doesn't take away at all from what has been brought to us by other witnesses who have come forward in the discussions that we've had around competitiveness in agriculture. It has been a natural lead-in, which is what brought me to bring the motion forward. If there's a concern about the sustainability of agriculture and concern about that sustainability in different sectors of the industry, I think we need to investigate all those sectors to find out what is working and what isn't working, what is good within an industry, and the government programs that would support that.
I think we have an opportunity to spend a few weeks at this, but give it a timeline so we know we have a starting point and an end point. I'm suggesting again that we would look at it for six or seven weeks.
I think unless there's more discussion, we could bring it to a vote, Mr. Chair.