Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
What I'm finding concerning about making this amendment is that it doesn't give any end date. We want to give a date, by Friday. The Liberals are suggesting to keep it open-ended.
Mr. Chair, COVID-19 is growing in our communities, maybe not here in Nova Scotia, but definitely in Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan. They have all had the highest numbers they have seen in the last number of months, the highest numbers since COVID-19 came in.
If we think that the Minister of Health is going to get less busy over the next number of weeks as she's trying to fix the problems created by the second wave of COVID-19, we're dreaming in technicolour. I think she needs to come here as soon as possible because it's going to get busy for her over the next number of days.
Her estimates have been brought forward. If she doesn't know them and she's not ready for this, then why is she Minister of Health? Every minister of health needs to know their estimates, what they are bringing forward, and be able to debate them at the earliest convenience.
If she can't be here by Friday, then I would suggest to my colleagues to provide another date that makes more sense, rather than leaving it open-ended, so that if she doesn't come before November 27, they can't say, “Oh, well, she got busy and can't come before us.”
That's my suggestion.