Thank you. I would like to move the following motion:
As it relates to the committee's future business, including the study of Bill C-69, it be agreed:
I. That meetings in the week of the May 28 and future meetings be dedicated to hearing from witnesses regarding the bill for no fewer than 12 hours and that the clerk invite Mr. Mark Carney as a witness to testify with respect to the 2024 budget, the economy and the environment for two hours;
II. That any amendments to the bill be submitted to the clerk no later than 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 31;
III. That clause-by-clause consideration of the bill start no later than 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 4, and that during clause-by-clause consideration, all clauses which are subject to no amendment be considered and voted on first, followed by all clauses with amendments for consideration; and that if the committee hasn’t completed clause-by-clause consideration by 5:00 p.m. on June 4, all remaining amendments submitted to the committee shall be deemed moved, the chair shall put the question forthwith and successively, without further debate, on all remaining clauses and proposed amendments, as well as each and every question necessary to dispose of clause-by-clause consideration of the bill, as well as all questions necessary to report the bill to the House;
IV. That following the completion of the study of the bill, the committee dedicate future meetings as follows:
Two meetings on money laundering;
Two meetings on its study on the Policy Decisions and Market Forces that have led to Increases in the Cost of Buying or Renting a Home in Canada; and
Two meetings on its study on Inflation in the Current Canadian Economy.
That has been sent around to the clerk in both official languages so that it can be circulated.
I understand that all parties were involved in the discussions that led to this, so I want to thank everybody for their efforts to reach an agreement and to move past a bit of an impasse that we had for a while. It's really great to see the committee working collaboratively.
There are a couple of other things I want to put on the record in terms of the impacts of this, Chair. One is that the committee members agreed that it would be great to hear four hours of witness testimony on Thursday, Friday and Monday, with preferred times being 10:00 to 2:00 on each one of those days. That was the preference.
I would also like to say that the witness list would be submitted today. We would try to complete that so that invitations could potentially go out today, and witness testimony would then start on Thursday. We realized as we discussed this that the timelines are pretty condensed and that we need to get those invitations out as soon as possible to hear from witnesses.
I think that's all I was going to say, and I just want to say thank you again for everyone's collaboration on this.