What I fear is that we're going to get into this interminable loop of conversations in committee business planning. I think we have to take some action here.
Don, with respect, you had the floor and had an opportunity to put forward one of your motions. Right now, as we're sitting here discussing the committee plan, there is no NDP motion to even discuss in the mix because you haven't moved one yet. I think you have at least four on the Notice Paper for our committee, and we'd like to hear what the NDP priority is because we don't know it right now. That would be helpful to the discussion as we're discussing what's on the table. Right now, I think four or five motions that we've passed are on the table for discussion. It would be helpful to know what the NDP priority is and I'd like to move forward.
I join the consensus that seems to be emerging around having officials come, especially three weeks from now. I really do think it's going to be important for us to get a lay of the land as we decide how we're going to move forward as a committee. We may decide that we want to dedicate more time to COVID, or we may decide, as some have suggested, that this may be redundant to other briefings and public information out there. However, we have to put something on the table.
I think dedicating two meetings to the suicide prevention hotline—and I'm not saying when they should be—should be prioritized, because it's something this committee can shed some light on. It's been a long time since we passed that unanimous consent motion. The debate didn't end when we passed the unanimous consent motion, but there's been zero action on it up to this point, and I think it's incumbent on us as a health committee to do that. We make the argument that mental health is health, so when we have an opportunity to shine a light on why something is delayed or taking so long, it's incumbent on us to do that.
We have this opportunity to invest two meetings to bring in the minister and have the CRTC come. The minister has pointed to the CRTC as the reason we can't get a hotline passed and put in motion. It's a chance to call them as witnesses, hear from them, ask questions and have a public discussion with some of our expert stakeholders about what's taking so long. Maybe there's a really good reason. As a committee it would be good to understand that, and as parliamentarians from all sides, since this is something we unanimously agree on.
I'll throw that out there, but Don, I really look forward to hearing which of the different motions you have on notice you would like to put into the mix.