Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The second motion that I'd like to propose is a modified version of one that I had originally proposed. Due notice has been given. This has to do with the economic stimulus package and the report.
At a prior meeting there seemed to be some confusion or lack of understanding about the fact that the economic stimulus is, in fact, a two-year plan, that we're just finishing the first of two years, and I wanted to clarify that in the discussions of the report, the one we're referring to now is an interim one. We're not capable of doing a final one of course until a year hence.
Because it was changed, I will reread it in English:
That the Committee resume its study of the implementation of the Economic Stimulus Package from the Second Session of the 40th Parliament, that the evidence and documentation received by the Committee in relation to the said study be taken into consideration in this session, that the draft report prepared by its analyst in respect to this study be considered for presentation to the House as an interim report as soon as possible, and that the committee continue to hold hearings on this issue in order to present a final report to the House.
Mr. Chair, I will also add that this would simply not be necessary had we not prorogued Parliament. This is, in fact, what we actually have to do to continue the study that this committee had agreed to do in the last session.