Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I was going to speak to the main motion, but I will speak to the amendment and then I'll put my hand back up to speak to the main motion.
I want to take a moment to thank Luc for that really thoughtful intervention. Don also touched on this, showing the respect to the people who are already lined up and who have been, to the best of my recollection, bumped at least once, maybe twice already for Monday, and also speaking to the importance of these witnesses and not just the respect we need to show them to make sure they are there Monday and that they get a chance to present their witness testimony.
By the same token, with regard to the amendment, it is only fair that we show that same level of respect to the people we would be inviting for that one hour on Monday afternoon after Monday's meeting.
These are very busy public servants. I can tell you that I rarely ever, on the next business day, have openings in my calendar, so they will need to move their schedules, and perhaps they can do that.
Perhaps we can get them the headsets. Perhaps we can get the sound checks. Perhaps it can be done on Monday, but with regard to the amendment, if we are showing the same level of respect to Monday's witnesses for the two hours, or for the first part of the meeting, we should show the same respect to people we would be inviting to that meeting for that one-hour period of time. I'm looking for a nod from Luc. I guess that is prior to question period on Monday.
That is not to veer off the amendment to speak on the motion itself—I will come back on that, but that would be my concern with the amendment on Monday.
Don said—and I don't want to put words in his mouth—that this perhaps isn't an emergency but it is urgent. I have the clarity. I watched enough of the newscast to get the clarity between the NACI comments and the Health Canada comments, but it is important not only that we as a committee get that clarity but also that we get that for Canadians as well so that, as has been said already, we make sure that we don't contribute, through calling an emergency motion, to the concern that Canadians may have. It's important that Canadians know that these vaccines are safe.
With regard to the amendment, I will listen to the debate on the amendment, and I want to thank Luc for those very thoughtful comments about making sure that we show a high level of respect to the witnesses.
Don spoke about wanting to make sure he gets a chance to question the president of Pfizer Canada. That's important. I always enjoy hearing Don's questions and hearing the testimony that comes out of those questions, so I want to make sure we have that on Monday, cogizant again of the clerk's comments about there being no open slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays because of the committees all sitting.
I'll certainly listen to the comments we have on Monsieur Thériault's amendment.
Thanks, folks.