Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair.
We've had a fair bit of discussion about the work agenda of the committee, and different proposals have been put forward. I thought I'd formalize it a bit. In the motion, I'm going to be recommending that we finish the work we already have on our plate, as you just referenced, on pharmacare. It's been almost two years since we identified a list of topics that we would like to work through. There are still some left—home care, palliative care, blood and organ donations—but I thought maybe the subcommittee should meet again to identify those projects and any others that have come up since it's been two years, really, since we did it, and then we would come back to the committee with a report from the subcommittee. My motion is consistent with that. I move:
That the Committee's work agenda be, in order, the following:
1. the consideration of a draft report and recommendations related to its study of the development of a national pharmacare program;
2. the consideration of a draft report and recommendations related to its study of antimicrobial resistance;
3. finishing the study and consideration of a draft report and recommendations related to its study of Canada’s Food Guide; and
4. the consideration of any legislation that is referred to it at that point of time; and
and that the Chair convene a meeting of the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure at the first available opportunity in 2018 during the regular Committee timeslot to discuss and plan other future work of the Committee with a report to be tabled at the following regular Committee meeting.
