Mr. Chair, I agree with my colleague Mr. Kelloway. I am concerned that the goal of Ms. Rempel Garner's motion is not to get good work done for Canadians. There are more important issues for Canadians. This is the second meeting we have spent largely on one motion in an attempt to discuss these topics without any real concrete direction. Quite frankly, there are some topics in the motion with which I think all my colleagues agree, but we need to find common ground.
It is almost wasting time, I would say, if we are not working on important topics like mental health, long-term care or other important issues that are only briefly mentioned and are buried in the massive motion for the production of documents, and I cannot agree with that.
I agree that there is an important issue that is near and dear to Canadians when we are having a second wave of COVID-19. I trust that members of the opposition do, in fact, want to get good work done. We all want to produce solid reports to Parliament, but this motion is simply not the way to do it.
The approach I would like to see the committee take is to study aspects of COVID-19, whether it relates to mental health, long-term health care or any other topic related to the health of Canadians. We could do a study on a topic, have a report, and then go on to the next one. For example, how are we supposed to even consider studying post-production of the documents when there are more important topics we can study? Let's find common ground.
In my riding, residents are contacting me regarding long-term care, which has been hit hard. This is important. That is most important to me. It's the same thing for many of my colleagues who have important issues, so let's find common ground.
There is no paid sick leave. We have talked about that. Many residents are contacting me on that because it's not there. Yesterday I was talking to someone about why I am talking about paid sick leave. I am because it's related to health. I'm happy to take a moment to speak of the great work of all parties that wish to secure paid sick leave for Canadians.
Long-term care is very near and dear to me.
As you know, we all have seen the statistics that mental health has been very impacted due to COVID-19.
Let's find common ground, and then we can all work together for the betterment of Canadians. This is what I would urge the committee to do. Mr. Chair, that's what I really want to say.
Mr. Chair, there is my motion that I want to table, which is very important for my residents, but now Ms. Rempel Garner's motion is there.
Let's find common ground and, as my colleague Mr. Kelloway said, if we are for production of documents where we can relate the good work and the important work of our health care workers, our public servants....
This is all political games, I would say. Let's do real work for Canadians, which is important for everyone's riding.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.