—and I don't believe my colleague has received the amendment in both official languages.
As I understand it, we're now on a subamendment to invite the minister. I think we can tie this up pretty quickly.
We have an invitation to the minister. As it relates to clause-by-clause, we would agree to a reasonable clause-by-clause start date once we see legislation. If that's going to be a hang-up and if you're going to try to pick the clause-by-clause start date now, that's obviously going to be a challenge. We would agree to a reasonable clause-by-clause start date once we see legislation.
If the government would like to bring in a clause-by-clause motion on September 21 or whenever we come back, once we have legislation, that's no problem, but we have at least one meeting left before June 25. It sounds like there's some general agreement to devote Tuesday's meeting to this issue.
The only sticking point is this clause-by-clause, which we actually don't need to resolve today. Conservatives would agree to a reasonable clause-by-clause start date once legislation is tabled. If that's acceptable to the parliamentary secretary and the government, I think we can continue on. I believe that is the consensus. We'd have to test the room on that, but I think that's where we are. That's how I understand it.
We have the motion and the amendment from the government. We agree to everything the government has, but for clause-by-clause, I've just made a recommendation to the government on how to fix the clause-by-clause language and that we add an invitation to the minister, which we know is not a summons; it's just an invitation.
I think that's a pretty reasonable position to land on for today. It means we can have the rest of this meeting—we still have some time left—and meet on Monday. I'll just leave that for the government to consider. If they want to suspend for a bit, that's no problem. We're here to find out.