First, I'd like to thank everybody in the meeting for helping us get through the humdrum stuff in the first meeting. It's always routine, but I thank everybody for playing along.
I thank the chair and congratulate him on his election.
I would like to say that, in the spirit of where we are currently in Canada and around the world, in the state of a global health emergency, what an extraordinary obligation we all have to work together to improve the situation in Canada and get the answers that Canadians deserve, ultimately, in a spirit of collaboration. That ideal of coming together on this committee shouldn't be lost.
In that regard, I also want to acknowledge that this has been a long month of sitting. It's rare that we sit four weeks in a row. We have an opportunity to go home now and see our families, our constituents and stakeholders. We should not lose sight of the work ahead in this committee.
What the next step could be, if we all agree, is for the first meeting back when we reconstitute to be a briefing from officials—not necessarily any specific official, but in the context of the pandemic. Wherever we are when we do reconvene, the first meeting should be one with officials, so that we can start off with a question-and-answer period and a statement from those officials.
That's just for the sake of conversation.