If I could then continue with the amendment, my understanding is that we have reached an agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberals, but I haven't had a chance to bring the Bloc Québécois and Heather.... Will she be back? I didn't want to begin without her.
There's a reworking of the motion, which the clerk has sent around, but I think we're going to rework it again.
It would read:
That this committee call for dialogue between representatives of the Tibetan people (his Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives and/or the Central Tibetan Administration)—
I remember we worked on that language a lot at CACN.
and the government of the People's Republic of China with a view to enabling Tibet to exercise genuine autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution; report this motion to the House, and request the government table a response to the report.
It would ask for a government response. The reason we're doing that, I will be very clear, is that we don't want to take time on a concurrence debate on this. We want to get this done here. We would ask for the government response, but with the hope that we in this room are all committed to work with our House leaders to make sure we do not get into a concurrence debate on this. We don't want to take House time.
It's not that Tibet's not an important issue. It's precisely the opposite. We don't want a political division on this. That would be our hope.
If we're agreed on the language that Mr. Bergeron presented, which we've all agreed to before, I hope that will work.