Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think we need to move COOL up, and particularly how it affects the livestock sector, both beef and pork. I think we should do a short report on the committee's opinion regarding COOL and the changes to COOL and what it will mean in our livestock sector, because we're going to be speaking as the parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture. We do have a voice, and I think there's a lot to be gained by that.
What I'm noticing in our meeting, though, is that we don't really have a mechanism for deciding. When a member has an idea like this, how are we going to decide whether we move ahead with the idea or not? It goes back to our needing to have a way of changing this, otherwise we're going to go around in circles. I'm putting forward an idea here that COOL should move up, you've put forward an idea that we should have the Cattlemen's Association in, and we have an idea over here that the Pork Council should join us. We need a mechanism for agreeing and deciding, yes, we're doing it, or no, we're not, because someone else will have another idea in about two minutes and we're never going to quite resolve it.
I'm suggesting that we move COOL up. I'm suggesting that we prepare a report on that. That's going to take some time. I don't mean a lot of time, but the report has to be prepared and then reviewed. That takes committee time, so we'd want to make sure that we scheduled that in there.
But I would like to know what mechanism you would have for us to actually make decisions at some point. I'm not saying it has to be now, but how do we move ahead with certain ideas so we don't scatter into 10 ideas and not arrive at any decisions?