Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have a suggestion, or maybe a couple of them, that might work with the committee, but I just want to go back. It was Ms. Khalid who moved the motion, and she spoke to it a couple of times.
She said a couple of things. At one point she said we need to make “certain that all voices are able to be heard”, and included words about shedding “light on areas in which the freedom of speech of Canadians belonging to racial and religious minorities is currently curtailed”.
We have a pile of things here that we need to do and need to cover. Ms. Khalid even talked about taking a look at the charter rights that people have been given. It is one of the responsibilities of this committee to examine those, so that the government has a better idea how they might enforce them.
Another Liberal MP talked about the need to re-evaluate language, saying that we need to talk about language around this motion.
If we're going to go into those areas, we're certainly not going to have enough time with six to 10 meetings to do so. I would like to make an amendment—I'm going to propose it in a couple of minutes—that we just remove the clause “devote a maximum of 10 meetings to the study, using extended hours as necessary”, at least until we have our scope meeting. We're going to sit down perhaps this Thursday or perhaps a little bit later to try to put parameters around this study.
What is it that we're trying to do? What are the goals here? There's no possible way we're going to be able to achieve all the things that are on this page in six or 10 meetings. At some point—