Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The mental health issue has been on everybody's mind as well, but as we said earlier on, one of the best ways to help solve that is to learn more about vaccines and when we're going to have them available.
As Ms. Sidhu said, the meetings have already been set for Monday, Friday and going forward on vaccines, with the ministers coming in next week. As Ms. Rempel said, I wouldn't want to do anything to disrupt the process that's going for vaccines. I know that was a priority for Don's team as well, and I concur with the comments of Mr. Davies. He's absolutely accurate in regard to making sure we're not interrupting what's going on.
I wouldn't even mind having that.... It's a good idea to look at taking the first priority of each party and doing an interim report on those at the end as well. There is a need for each one of them to be done in a similar manner, but then we're breaking up what we said we would do in the agreement to start with. We said we would have two studies, one on the medical prices review board and the one on COVID, which included mental health, vaccines and other issues like PPE and such.
The only thing I'd be concerned about, if there is going to be discussion on an interim report on mental health, is that we look at it as taking some extra meetings. I believe our colleague from the Bloc, Luc—he can correct me if I'm wrong—just indicated that he wasn't on side with that.
I would look at proposing some wording for an amendment, Mr. Chair, that any meetings related to the drafting or review of this interim report be held over parliamentary constituency weeks. We have one of those coming up the week after next. We already know what we're doing next week. If the staff feel they have the time to put towards this interim review on mental health discussions that we've heard about in detail from all of our witnesses, and provided that any discussion we would have on that review would be done during those weeks, I would make that as an amendment.