I'm sorry. I guess this is just one of the difficulties of operating by Zoom. I'm not clear that I have before me the most current version of the motion.
Does this motion have in it a reference to the issue of nutrition for children? Mr. Berthold has assured me that it does, but I don't see those words. I don't know if I have the most current version of the motion. That's my first point. Second, I want to be clear that this study, if we are to undertake it, looks at the issue of health care provision to children and not just the impact that the pandemic has had on health care for children.
By the way, if it is just the impact that the pandemic has had on children's health care, then why isn't this just an issue that is dealt with in the meetings we have allocated towards the pandemic? We could easily call witnesses who speak to the impact of COVID on children in that context.
You know, I'll support this as long as it's clear that if we are going to use our [Technical difficulty—Editor] that it be clear that we can examine health care issues with children that go beyond just COVID or the pandemic but that might affect them generally; and second, that it's broad enough. I would like to see the words—unless it's understood by my colleagues—that we can look at the issue of nutrition for children, because I think that's a very large social determinant. I won't go into it in detail, but the issues of childhood obesity, diabetes and access to nutritional food I think are very important parts of childhood health.
I would just like to make sure that this study is broad enough to encompass that. Mr. Berthold has kindly assured me that this would be, and that he's comfortable with that, but I want to make sure that the words are in there. So far, I don't see the words in there, unless I'm looking at an old version of the motion.