Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to start by questioning the subamendment we're talking about right now.
The impact of the subamendment, given the logistics of all the meetings that would have to take place first, is to push the meetings into the new year. If that's indeed the case, I question why we are having an emergency meeting today to discuss a study that's going to start sometime in the new year, probably toward the end of January. It seems to me that if, in fact, this is an emergency—I would debate whether or not it is—adding an amendment that pushes this into the new year is not consistent with an emergency meeting. I question why the Conservatives are supporting this amendment if they are calling for this study as though it is an emergency.
I'd also question, on the emergency front, why the study they want to do is to investigate the Liberals' policies. We heard from Mr. Deltell, who said—I wrote it down—that he wanted opposition suggestions to meet our goals, yet the study that's being recommended, which won't start until sometime at the end of January, is proposed to investigate the current policies.
I'd be quite happy to propose a subamendment to the amendment—