Mr. Chairman, I served notice of motion with 48 hours, as per our Standing Orders, and I would like to move my motion:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee undertake an emergency study of the opioid crisis in Canada.
If I may speak extremely briefly, we know there is a crisis. All committee members are well aware of that. I know we're in the middle of a study on pharmacare. I would say that we would need four meetings for this. I would not be calling for a report but rather, perhaps, a series of recommendations to the minister.
Perhaps after we finish hearing the witnesses today we could take 10 minutes at the end of the meeting to discuss how the committee would like to schedule these. I think it's an emergency and while I don't think we have to do it immediately, as in the next meeting, I think we should get at this as quickly as we can while respecting the pharmacare study we're undertaking.