Thanks very much.
On Mr. Redekopp's motion, there are a few points I'd like to make.
First of all, I think we started this meeting dealing with a motion that a number of members of the committee felt was not reasonable and not a constructive way to move forward. Again, in the spirit of being constructive and moving forward on really important issues, like housing and inflation, for example, if we take a step back for a moment, I think Ms. Dzerowicz made the point, and I'd like to make it as well, that this committee has spent a significant amount of time studying housing affordability, and within our inflation study we have the capacity to do that. As Mr. Blaikie pointed out earlier, that inflation study is not complete. We have the ability to evaluate those matters. We have the ability to do that and we did so, and we have the ability to do that under the inflation study if that's something the committee wants to do.
The other point I would make is that on this particular topic, my understanding is that there is already another committee looking into this and that they've already invited the minister to appear. The committee I'm thinking of is the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. I'm open to being corrected on that if I've been misinformed, but my point is that having two committees studying something very similar and asking the minister to speak to a lot of the same issues and answer a lot of the same questions, to me, would not be the best use of our resources as a committee, because in doing so, we would be taking time away from other things we could be studying.
Mr. Blaikie spoke to this earlier today in our discussion about how we could be productive in our committee and what else we could be looking at and spending time studying. I agree with that point. I don't think that occupying the committee's time with something another committee is already doing would be a productive use of time.