Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I agree with my colleague Mr. Fergus that we do need to move on. I know that this issue has been hashed and rehashed. We've discussed and over-discussed it. A report has already been published on this. I really do think it's time we focused on things that are important to Canadians, that are for the well-being of Canadians.
My colleague Mr. Fergus talked about facial recognition and its impact on racialized minorities. I really would like to explore that concept. I would like to see how facial recognition, how artificial intelligence...and as a government, as private companies, move towards more and more artificial intelligence, how business is conducted, how government is conducted, and how public service is conducted. I really think there's an opportunity here for all members of this committee to focus on this. How do we protect the privacy of Canadians? How do we make sure that whatever services are being provided are being done in an equitable way?
I think we have a really good opportunity. We have the time. All I would ask our members to do is have the will to make sure that we are working on issues that are important to our time, that are important to Canadians and that impact Canadians' lives each and every day. I would really like to move forward on that. I really encourage our colleagues around the table here to come together and focus on those issues that Canadians are really concerned about and that I know that members of this committee are also really concerned about. I'm happy to work with my colleagues to draft such a motion or to revisit other motions that were not able to see fruition in the past Parliament.
This, on the other hand, has been hashed and rehashed again and again and again. I think it's time we moved past this, put it aside, and really focused on issues that Canadians care about and that we as parliamentarians should be very, very concerned about in this committee on access to information, privacy and ethics.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.