I'm not prepared to vote on this now. If I wanted to sort of change the perspective, I could offer an amendment that would then take the alternative timeline I've been talking about of preparing a report for the date we have in December.
I think I'm more interested in hearing from members about that alternative timeline, allowing us, as you mentioned, Mr. Chair, to table all of our COVID evidence, to build on the 793 submissions we've received in pre-budget, and to have the Bank of Canada, the finance minister...and at the same time meet with the Privy Council clerk and with the Ethics Commissioner, as we've just stipulated in our motion, without presuming that there's an acceptance in the House for both extending our deadline and also meeting virtually.
If we don't have acceptance on meeting virtually, that means we have members of Parliament coming back to Ottawa before Christmas, at a time when we have very high transmission. I'm not sure that's wise. There are so many pieces in place, I don't think it's wise for us to vote right away. I think it's more of an informal exchange to find out how people feel about an alternative pre-budget report that builds on the work we've already done and the submissions we've already received and that allows us a different road map over the next three weeks.