Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I had three other routine motions I wanted to propose for the committee's consideration. I'll move them one at a time.
The first one is something that has really been in all routine motions that I've seen, and I do have copies in English and French. I'll just read it out and then pass it out:
That all requests to appear before the committee be distributed to the committee members.
Perhaps I could speak to that briefly. We all know that occasionally—in fact frequently—there are witnesses who write to the chair and request to appear before the committee. All that this motion would do is to have the clerk notify the members that those requests have been made. It would be kind of a courtesy to the members so that we would know who is wanting to appear before the committee. It can sometimes influence whom we call as witnesses.
Let's say we're going to embark on a study and a number of groups contact the clerk to say they'd like to appear. If that's circulated to all of us, we can incorporate that into our own request for witnesses. I would hope that this is non-controversial. It has been part of the health committee's routine motions before, and, to my understanding, of many other committees as well.