Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, to respond to Mr. Oliphant's comments, I think it's important to underline that Mr. Stewart and the Public Health Agency retain many off-ramps after this motion with the amendment passes, if it passes.
This motion calls for the production of documents within seven days. Of course, the easiest off-ramp would be for the Public Health Agency to then provide the documents; then there's no report to the House.
If they wish to pursue a compromise proposal, they could certainly bring that to members, and through members to the House; and the House could decide not to proceed with a concurrence motion, because a request by the House for documents only takes effect if it is concurred in by the House, which is far from an automatic process.
There are other steps available in the next seven days and prior to a prospective concurrence. Seven days from now is a break week. Any concurrence couldn't possibly happen until the following week.
I would suggest that this motion puts in place a series of initial steps that can be taken, but it doesn't oblige the taking of those steps and it leaves the door open for compromise.
My suggestion would be very much, I think, in the spirit of Mr. Oliphant's comments: Let's adopt the amendment and the motion and let's encourage PHAC to take those off-ramps, but note that we have a path laid out if they choose not to.
Mr. Harris, rather than give you my motivations for wording it the way I did, let me just say I'm persuaded by your arguments and would support an amendment along the lines that you proposed.