First of all, I want to thank my friend opposite for raising this motion. He's right; it was outside of the 48-hour period, and even if it was 46 hours ago, we only received it this morning.
The emergency measures act is certainly important. It's something I think we can all agree should be studied. It's just going to be a matter of all of us agreeing how we're going to study that, how we're going to scope out this motion and how we're going to deal with the timing, which are all issues that my friend just outlined.
The intent of the motion as worded—and I don't know what amendments my friend opposite is referring to—is to start before March 3. I am guessing that there are members of this committee who would like to see it start even before that or significantly before that. I think it would be worth considering, especially given how much time is left in the day, potentially utilizing something at this committee that we haven't done thus far, which is to utilize our subcommittee to make sure that we can prioritize all of the current business, including this motion and the finalized wording of this motion.
I will remind my colleagues that we do have Bill C-8, current legislation, in front of this committee with a timeline agreed upon by this committee. With this motion, we have an additional request for the Deputy Prime Minister to appear, in addition to the current request for the Deputy Prime Minister to prepare for Bill C-8. I think we all want that to continue to happen.
At our last meeting, we included an updated invite with a new timeline for the Governor of the Bank of Canada. I think everyone here thinks it's important that pre-budget consultations are done on such a timeline that all of the substantial testimony we have heard to date and everything that has been written or received by this committee can be not only put into the final report, but received on a timeline such that it can be duly considered to be part of it and be positively impactful with regard to this year's budget.
Given that this is a substantial and appropriate motion that I think everyone here wants to study, and given that it's not just we who have amendments, but—