Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There have been discussions around the table in looking at this. One of the things that we think needs to be done as quickly as possible is getting started on the women's study and using the six parameters that Mr. Davies has proposed. There is also the urgency of the Medicago issue that we're dealing with right now.
We have eight two-hour meetings after the break when we come back, on Mondays and Wednesdays. It's challenging to try to get those four hours of the Medicago study done at the same time as getting started with the women's study, and staying in it instead of going in and out, and at least getting a good solid base to it. The discussion was about adding an extra hour to the meetings, if possible. We've had that discussion around the table, recognizing that Wednesdays that go until 9:30 at night are really a challenge, but perhaps we could add the extra hour on the Mondays.
I'm proposing that we start with the first meeting of two hours with Medicago on the Monday, followed with two hours on the women's study on the Wednesday, and then, in the next week, two hours on the women's study on the Monday and on the Wednesday. Then, in the next week, we would go to the opioid study and do two hours on that, plus an extra hour at that time.
Hopefully, Chair, that would give you a chance to try to arrange for us to get that extra hour. At the same time, as it's a big challenge to get ministers to come on short notice, we would have time to maybe get the Minister of Health or the Minister of Innovation and Science.
Next, then, the Wednesday study would be two hours with the women's study, and then on the final Monday we would go back to the opioid study, plus the one hour with, hopefully, a minister, etc., in that extra hour. We would then finish on the Wednesday with the women's study.
We would need, in the new year, to be coming back to focus on the women and opioid studies, but at least we'd have a good foundation on the women's study as well as the opioid study, as well as getting to Medicago as quickly as possible.