Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank everyone for their interventions. This is very interesting.
I'm very interested in this motion. I see a lot in this motion that is useful. However, I understand the concerns that Monsieur Bergeron has raised. Some of my concerns also stem from hearing the clerk talk about the fact that we are not going to be sitting again until February. Knowing that this committee has not sat since June and will not sit again until February is quite worrying for me.
Of course, there are things happening in this world that need our attention urgently. Some of those have been outlined. Some other ones that I would like to move motions on today are things around vaccine equity, the importance of dealing with how Canada has responded to COVAX and how we are working with countries around the world to ensure vaccine equity is happening. As well, what is happening in Ukraine is deeply troubling and I think requires parliamentary study.
I would like to suggest that if we want to have more time to examine this, perhaps this committee could agree to have a meeting next week. I know it is not a traditional sitting week, but we have the ability to sit next week to develop a plan, to develop what our strategies are, so that the clerk and the team supporting us can use the month of January to line up our work and we can hit the ground running.
As disappointed as I am that we are going from June until February without the foreign affairs committee of the Parliament of Canada sitting, I think this would be a compromise. We would have some time. We would be able to pass some of the motions before us and we would be able to have a work plan in place for February, or January 31, I suppose, when we reconvene.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.