I'll be quick, Mr. Chair. I'm going to make a proposal.
As I pointed out earlier, we cannot assume the minister's availability on the dates and days the committee sits between now and June 19. To this end, I think that, before imposing a date in a motion, it would be a good idea to ascertain the minister's availability.
I propose amending the motion to make it more vague. This probably won't please Ms. Ashton, but I would suggest, amicably, that she withdraw her motion for the time being, so that we can ascertain the minister's availability in the next few weeks. Perhaps that's something our Liberal colleagues could do. Then, once we have the information, we could come back to this motion, which would contain a specific date.
I'm pretty convinced that the motion would be passed very quickly if we proceeded in this way. You would certainly have my full co‑operation and my word of honour.