Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Not to shock the Hansard, but I will go on the record and say that this is a very practical and appropriate move by friends on the Conservative side. I certainly support it and I think it shows good faith, particularly, if I'm being very open here.... We spent our time discussing our priority of business in the beginning of this meeting in a way that would have have set forth the rest of our calendar. One of the issues that I've had—and I won't be nearly as animated as my last description about Mr. Chong—is having the same things going to multiple committees, and I think what Mr. Barrett has done is eliminate that prospect.
Certainly, if there are concerns—and they've outlined them in a very long and detailed way—they should be studied. I think PROC is the appropriate place for it to be studied, and I look forward to that. Should there be any unresolved issues that would have more alignment with our mandate here at ETHI, then at that time I might be willing to entertain a revisiting of that. In the meantime, I think it's important that this committee stay the course with the work that we've set out to do for the remainder of this session, and not necessarily have a new thing coming from our Conservative friends every other week, who want it to take precedence over everything else that we do at committee.
I appreciate that we're going to get a chance to hopefully explore some of the valuable work put forward by my friend from the Bloc, Mr. Villemure. I just want to say that I appreciate Mr. Barrett's intervention and amendment, and hopefully we can find good consensus around the table to have this referred to PROC.
Thank you.