Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I believe Mr. Thériault's motion here is about health care, and we need to move forward with it. I certainly think it's a very valid motion. We're looking at the situation of being able to deal with all of these issues in COVID, and certainly this is just one of many. I think that's the motion we need to be looking at and moving forward with. Mental health is extremely important. That's why it's included as part of these motions.
I do think we have an excellent opportunity here to be able to deal with the issue that's most important to Canadians. I think it's on everybody's mind out there. I mean, I flew home this weekend—if you want to look at a situation of everyone protecting themselves and helping others by wearing masks, by doing all of these things. We're distancing as much as possible, even in our airports and airplanes.
I think the issue that Mr. Thériault has put forward is one that urgently needs to be discussed. We just need to make sure we can move forward with motions like this. I think it's an excellent one to be a part of the motions on COVID discussions that we will need. There may be others that come forward as well, and debates that we're going to have and discussions on these motions that we're seeing. When we're seeing the increase in the numbers of COVID victims across the country, with people getting COVID-19 every day, the more urgent...the more breadth we can add to these motions, the better.
I commend my colleague from the Bloc for putting his motion forward and being able to make sure it's included in the whole discussion that we're having today.
Mr. Chair, I looked at the motions we had before, where we were looking at including mental health as part of those whole discussions, and I think that's a very sound way to go. We have an awful lot of circumstances where, to be blunt, we need to have more discussions on a broader base. There are a number of areas where we need information to be able to move forward and to be able to have discussions with the minister when the minister arrives at our committee meetings. I believe we need to move forward as much as we can with these types of motions.
That may be all I'll say on it for now. I think we need to be able to move forward as quickly as we can with a broader discussion of the whole area of what's required for the discussions we're going to have as we go forward. If other members of the committee want to chime in on that, I guess we would be quite happy to hear what they have to say, but I think it's the inclusion of a motion like this, along with all the other areas that have been talked about, that would be most important to Canadians.