Things are becoming a little clearer now. Committee members cannot do through the back door what they cannot do through the front door.
We have spent a number of meetings on the motion relating to the COVID-19 study, which had to be proposed in the House of Commons. The Liberal Party tried to make us conduct a study on mental health. Mental health is one of my priorities, but there was a debate, and the House made a decision. We got our marching orders to work on the COVID-19 study, and the priority leading up to Christmas was not supposed to be mental health.
In that sense, I agree with Mr. d'Entremont. When the Bloc Québécois sent its list of witnesses and topics Wednesday of last week, we tried to address what would not be covered by the other parties, to avoid overlap and ensure relevant issues would be studied.
What this subamendment would do is have the committee meet three times on mental health and once on the PMPRB before Christmas. I can't support that, because I agree with Mr. Barlow, Mr. Powlowski, Mr. d'Entremont and Mr. Davies.
If we are going to spend only one meeting on COVID-19 before Christmas, it should focus on vaccines. Unfortunately, the Liberal Party is going through the back door to delay the COVID-19 study.
Mr. Van Bynen does not deserve that. What he is trying to do is commendable. I am as interested as he is in examining the issue. I am going to have to vote against the subamendment, not because I am anti a mental health study, but because it has taken us a long time to get to where we are today. We can't turn back the clock and do things through the back door. If we do, we will never see this through. We will never get anywhere if members keep trying to put a spoke in the committee's wheel.