Thank you, Mr. Chair.
With respect to the urgency of what needs to be done, I can't help but make a comment to my colleagues who received the documents but were not present during the previous meeting. Quebec and the provinces are well aware of the labour problem. They have been dealing with this problem for a long time, and they don't have the financial resources to deal with it.
During the first wave, all health stakeholders, whoever they may be, came to tell us that the chronic underfunding of health networks over the past 30 years had weakened them, to the point where it was very difficult to overcome the pandemic. We have seen the consequences of the precariousness of the jobs of some health care workers in Quebec. The Government of Quebec had to adapt to the situation, provide training and try to hire 10,000 people.
With all due respect to my colleagues, Quebec and the provinces know very well that the urgent need right now is to provide structural and recurrent funding to those who have been struggling with access to care problems for 30 years. These people know very well how to invest this money in to take structural action that will help them improve the situation.
We can do a study on the complementarity of the immigration component. My colleague Mr. Davies talked about that, which is very relevant. At the same time, we see every year that the government has trouble getting our foreign workers into the fields, and we are still experiencing the same problems. So I'm a little skeptical about the effectiveness of the state of emergency.
That being said, I understand that this motion will be adopted, regardless of what we say, particularly to change the order of priorities. So let's get to the vote as quickly as we can, and we'll point out the consistency or the inconsistency and the jurisdictional issues at the right time. I think some of my colleagues who have very good intentions are sometimes mistaken about Parliament, and the issues they address are more those of provincial elected representatives.
So I'm ready to vote.