Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, colleagues.
My opening statement today on my first day on this committee expressed a genuine interest and desire for collaborative work at committee. I was excited to join this group. I come from the environment and foreign affairs committees prior to this, and I think there's deep, deep work for the committee concerning privacy and other important issues that matter to Canadians and the work of the House. The value of collaborative work with our whips in leading into the work in this room is that we set structure so that even in times when we hold the position of chair as the government or we don't, the work that we do matters and how we move through that work also matters.
Similar to the previous motion on meeting without quorum that my colleague Ms. Hepfner read and we decided to set aside to seek clarification, and in an effort to move this committee forward today with what are routine and standard motions, I think it would be in the same spirit of that collaborative work in setting the tone of this committee that we do the same thing with Mr. Green's motion at this time.
No one likes surprises. No one likes motions that are just put on the table without their being received with prior notice or translation for our colleagues from the Bloc or other members of the committee for whom English is not their first language—and it doesn't set a tone of collaborative work. We will disagree on many things here, but nevertheless, to start out of the gate this way without discussion on what is an important piece of the structure of how we move through the studies, the information, and the witnesses we'll be working with here, frankly, I'm a little bit disappointed. Therefore, I move this discussion be put to the side so we can get through the routine motions that will structure the work this committee will be doing going forward. I think in the spirit of the previous motion that we put to the side, we should be doing the same here.