Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We need to get along on this committee. We need to work this out and we need to get to the business of serving Canadians. I fully agree with Ms. Kramp-Neuman and I wasn't even here for the first 45 minutes because I was talking about cellphone data in the House of Commons. I find it a little bit absurd to say it's undemocratic. It's democratic to have a vote right now. Everyone, let's just have a vote on it.
This is one study. If we don't like it, if it doesn't work, then we'll review it for the next study. We're not changing the constitution of this committee. We're not arguing about how this committee is going to do its business for the next year or two years, it's for one study. And I think it's in the spirit of making it less partisan and working together. We are going to call mutual witnesses to testify here. We are going to have witnesses in common. We're going to hear from nurses, doctors, physicians' assistants and nurse practitioners.
With all due respect to Mr. Lake, we had this discussion before you arrived, and you're a huge addition to this committee because you've been working on issues pertinent to health and mental health for so long. But we need to get on with it, and we can only get on with it if we vote, and that's the democratic thing to do here. If it doesn't work, then I think we can have a discussion offline and say, that was a mistake, we'll do something different next time. There are about four witnesses per meeting and to select one from each party is fine. I think it's going to work really well.
So I hope we can get on with it, and try something a little bit new for those of us who haven't tried this before. For those who were on the committee last time, we carry on with what was working. I hope we can vote.