I will begin by saying that I'm completely in agreement with the intent of Mr. Chong's amendment to Ms. Sahota's motion. However, I don't believe it's an amendment; I think it is a completely different kettle of fish, which I would like you to rule on in a moment.
That being said, I think we could work our way out of this quite easily by withdrawing for the moment both Mr. Bergeron's and Madam Sahota's suggestions for work and considering this as a motion that Mr. Chong is bringing forward. I think it's quite good. It may actually be two motions, in my humble opinion. It may be a motion to invite each of our two ministers to appear before us for estimates, which I believe the government side would be completely in favour of, just to put that out there. Then everyone could present their motions on potential studies, have them go to the subcommittee on agenda and procedure and then have that committee report back.
I'm always a little nervous about telling the chair when to set a meeting. We could advise the chair that a meeting on Friday would be useful, knowing it is at the call of the chair that those meetings happen.
The spirit of this, I think, would move our committee along. It would allow us to take Mr. Bergeron's important issue and Madam Sahota's important issue, and other important issues that anybody else could raise, and put them into a hopper, and then the subcommittee could come back with a good initial work plan for approval by this whole committee.
I'm not wanting to stop discussion, but I'm kind of wanting to stop discussion.
Mr. Chong is smiling.