I want to be clear on the wording before we have a discussion on the amendment, so we will just get clarification on the wording so we know what we're debating here.
While we have this little interlude, I would remind members of the work ahead of us in this committee. We have several private members' bills, and we have several motions. We also have BillS-5, an act to implement conventions and protocols concluded between Canada and Finland, Mexico and Korea for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. We also have BillC-37, an act to amend the law governing financial institutions and to review the Bank Act, which is a rather onerous responsibility before the committee.
With that in mind, I want to assure committee members that if we do proceed along these lines as proposed by this amendment, it will be my intention not to till the same field twice. If we are going to call an extensive number of witnesses to debate the income trust issue and we're going to devote the committee's time to this task now, I don't anticipate calling exactly the same people back a second time for any reason.
If committee members would like to make a case for another approach, I invite them to do that at another time, but I assure you that we have too much on our plate to be going through this exercise twice.
Now, I want to hear the wording of the amendment as proposed by Mr. Dykstra. I will let the clerk read that to the committee.