I want you to know that I always do this in a spirit of collaboration, as everyone knows.
The fantastic thing about committees is that even if its members have started a study, they can suspend it to start another one if there is a priority that they haven't seen coming because of holidays, for example. The committee is sovereign. It's very simple.
Let me take the example of Mr. Chong, who was telling us that an Indo-Pacific strategy will be proposed by the government. At that point, if we have already started a study, we may well decide to suspend it to comply with the new motion that will be put on the table, probably by Mr. Chong. That's how collaboration works too.
What I find a bit disturbing is that we will have a meeting next week, but we will only discuss the schedule in September. That doesn't work. What are we going to say to each other next week? Are we going to play cards?
I think we should be talking about potential motions that can already be tabled. Everyone can do their job. We will work collaboratively in subcommittee.
I reiterate that if something ever happens in the news that we need to address quickly, then we will suspend the current motion and start on the new motion. The committee is sovereign. It is very easy to do that.
I propose to table my motions today, which are the two motions I have told you about. I can wait to table the third one. Then we will do what we want with it, we will discuss it next week. We will work as any good member of Parliament should work in a committee meeting.
So I move to table two motions, Mr. Chairman. You should know that I am replacing Mr. Stéphane Bergeron, from whom I have received extremely specific instructions. So my friend Mr. Bergeron will be very pleased that I am tabling these motions on his behalf in the special committee.