Thank you, Mr. Chair.
While the study is important, we have to look at how long it has taken to get here. I don't want us to lose sight of the fact that there is still some work to wrap up. I'm thinking of the analysts. Our study on Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy is almost complete. We need to schedule an hour for the Taiwan representative to appear and an hour for Deputy Prime Minister Freeland.
In my opinion, it wouldn't be reasonable to drop these items, which are almost completed. We need to let the analysts do their jobs. I would like to give the chair the flexibility to tie everything up. I sat on the ad hoc committee, and I can understand the importance of the issue. I don't think that doing this new study one or two meetings later makes much of a difference. That way, we wouldn't leave any work unfinished and we could move right into preparing the report on the Winnipeg lab. There would be no interruptions. For that reason, I will vote in favour of the amendment.