Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are a number of competing ideas coming from members of this committee about what we should study. We have the motion on the floor from Ms. Sahota. We just got a notice from Monsieur Bergeron about what he would like to study. I'm going to suggest a path forward for the committee and hopefully we can get a consensus on that.
I think what we should do is defer all these potential studies to the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure, so that the group of five of us—including you, Mr. Chair—can hash out what this committee is going to study in the coming months, as opposed to dealing with it right now.
The other thing I'd like to put on the table, before this meeting adjourns today and after we have disposed of this motion from Ms. Sahota, is that I would like us to call the two ministers responsible for the estimates in front of our committee. As you know, Parliament has not sat regularly since mid-March, and I believe it a fundamental responsibility of parliamentary committees to review the estimates. We have estimates that are in front of this committee. I understand that the period of supply finishes on November 27, when they will be deemed automatically reported back to the House, so I think we should call separately both the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Development to explain the estimates they have requested of Parliament.
I know we're not going to deal with that right now, because we're on Ms. Sahota's motion, but before we adjourn today, I'd like to at least see if there is a consensus within the committee to proceed and give the clerk something to work on when the committee adjourns today.
To that end, I'd like to move an amendment to this motion in order to give some clarity about what I'm proposing. This amendment would be in front of the motion that Ms. Sahota has just presented. The amendment I would like to move is the following:
That the committee have a discussion of the study below and any other future committee business, deferring any decision to the subcommittee on agenda and procedure, that motions for consideration of future business by the subcommittee be submitted to the clerk no later than end of business day Thursday October 15, that the subcommittee on agenda and procedure meet this Friday, October 16, to discuss future committee business and that the subcommittee on agenda and procedure report back to the committee next week.