Thanks, Chair.
To be clear, if I said “in B.C.”, I misspoke. I meant in Canada.
You're very welcome, Mr. Johns. It's six a day in B.C.
That being said, the point here is that we're not making a useful and judicious use of the limited time we have. We also have another motion and I'll take my hat off to Mr. Johns. He presented his motion, which was germane. He presented it quickly. We agreed on it quickly, and we moved forward with it because it is incredibly important that, before the end of this session, we be in a position to have the ministers respond to the estimates again.
My plea to this committee is that we have work before us, some of it perhaps is more important than others. Some of it—and this is my summary, Chair, just to give you a heads-up—is incredibly important on behalf of Canadians and perhaps some of it is less so. I'm not going to tell you that I think I'm the arbiter on that.
There is the fact that we have a bit of a backlog of things that we need to get to and we are coming toward the end of the session. If members have the desire to sit all summer and have Standing Committee on Health meetings all summer, I think the Conservative side is quite happy to do that.
If that's your plea, Ms. Sidhu, I'm happy to be here to do that and to be of service to Canadians. I think that's incredibly important.
Specifically with the study on opioids.... Again, this is my own prioritization. The study on opioids and the study on breast cancer and screening guidelines specifically, for me, would be at the top of my list of things that we need to do on behalf of Canadians.
Because of the dire straits and the difficulties we got into with respect to other studies in the past.... This is not the fault of the analysts. That's not what I'm meaning to say in that direction. In the past, we've gotten into some difficulties with the studies because they've been so prolonged and drawn out. That causes extreme difficulties and makes reports—with all of our names on them—perhaps not as good as they could have been if we had done them in a more timely fashion.
That's my plea. For that reason I move to adjourn debate on Ms. Sidhu's motion.