Thank you, Chair.
We have had some good discussion within our subcommittee over the last few days, and I think we each have come up with a motion for a study that we would like to pursue. This doesn't preclude other things that may come up. Certainly, there will be some emergent issues, but I think this gives us a good template for now until the Christmas recess.
For ourselves—I know this has been submitted or passed around—this is the study that Conservatives would like to put forward:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee undertake a study on the government's regulatory reform initiative in agriculture and agri-food at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, with a focus on identifying where reforms can be expedited, where costs to producers and processors can be reduced without compromising health or trade, and where political leadership is required to move forward on long-standing files.
I didn't put in the motion how many days or how many meetings we would want for this—we can discuss that—but I would say up to eight. I think this is not going to be a short study. If we get it done more quickly, that's fine, but if everybody's okay with up to eight as the number, I think that's a good way to start.