Thank you.
The only amendment we're looking at in this—just for clarification, Mr. Beech—is the date. We'd like the date to start next week.
As I said, I think there's some accommodation we'd like to make on this as far as what's happening with Bill C-8 is concerned. Calling the minister on Bill C-8 would be something we would yield on here in order to have her here for this study as opposed to Bill C-8. We would move past all the rest of the hearings we had scheduled on Bill C-8. There's obviously going to have to be some give on some of the issues before us, and that is an issue I think we can give on, having other witnesses.
We'd still like to have the Governor of the Bank of the Canada here when he was scheduled to be here, because it's the only time we can get him, so we'd like to stick to that in the agenda. However, we would like to start on this study next week.
When we initially drafted this motion, we were thinking that we couldn't accommodate around Bill C-8, and we've decided to let that whole process go. I think most of the amendments we've discussed are going to be submitted by the 25th anyway, and we can do line-by-line according to the schedule that you've set previously, so there would be no compromise as far as getting that through the House is concerned. That accommodates that.
I do think that all Canadians have a heightened awareness of this and what this means for their financial system and the way their banks are treating them. I would like this to move forward as quickly as possible and we'll hopefully get a vote on it today.
I appreciate Mr. Blaikie as well in accommodating his concerns into the motion we have here today.
The one amendment of course is about “no later than Thursday, March 3”. Of course, that would be Tuesday. That's in part (b). It would be Tuesday, February 22. That would be it.