Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to Mr. Fisher for correcting me on that, but it is a motion. I'd gladly go back and discuss the earlier one, because these issues are all in it, but for the sake of co-operation here, this new motion has been brought forward to try to get the immediacy of the situation on the table.
For my colleague, as was pointed out by Mr. Powlowski, this is the most important issue in Canada right now, or one of them at least. People are watching the health committee because health is important to everybody right now in this country.
We finally have Parliament operating again, and it's an opportunity for us to immediately get into this issue and get the documentation. Mr. Kelloway said in his opening comments that somebody might say this isn't being transparent. I would certainly say so, because these documents are not coming forward. If there's nothing there, well then, just bring them forward and we'll get on with things.
The second part in the original motion was “in order to to fully study this emergency situation”. That's what we want to do: study the emergency. The way it has been presented today recognizes it as an emergency, and it is an all-encompassing motion. It includes all issues.
There are issues that we could speak about, and they've been listed, but rapid testing has to be one of those. Vaccine development and all these other things will be there as the world develops them, but the situation now is that rapid testing has already been okayed by the government, but we're not seeing it and we don't have it. All we're asking for is an opportunity to study this and let Canadians have their questions answered, because that's what we're seeing today. Anybody who says that “all” isn't all-encompassing hasn't read the motion or wasn't listening to it when it was read out.
The right balance does need to be struck here, and we could easily move forward. The reason there are dates in here, if you want to move it back a week, is that tomorrow is October 20, and we've already had that original motion for 10 days. I'm in favour of starting tomorrow with this, if we could, because the sooner we can get this information gathered together, the sooner we can make good decisions for Canadians.