Thank you, Chair.
I found Ms. Chi's comments very interesting. Specifically, she said that Canadians are looking for this committee to take action. I found that surprising because the Minister of Health is the person who is able to take action on this crisis. This committee doesn't really take action. This committee procures documents. This committee discusses and debates. This committee prepares reports.
If we do this study, the only action that I foresee—unless somebody else on the governing bench would like to correct me—is that a report will be forthcoming. A report is not really action, but as far as the reports go, we already have three other reports in the pipeline that haven't been produced yet. What is the urgency to discussing this study in order to produce a report when we haven't produced reports on the last three studies?
She is the parliamentary secretary, so she's close to the Minister of Health. She's close to the person who could take action. I just want to understand this. One, what action is she expecting this committee to take? Two, why doesn't the health minister just take that action presently? Three, which Canadians specifically have been asking for the health committee to do this? I haven't seen that in the media. I haven't seen that on social media. Nobody has contacted my office demanding that the health committee take action on this. If they did, I would have to educate them about what limited actions the health committee could take.
What I do see, conversely, by way of a counter-example, is a lot of interest in the $300 million that went missing with PrescribeIT. Canadians are demanding an investigation on that. There have been umpteen stories about that in the Global and Mail alone.
I'll leave that with her. She can explain to me which Canadians are demanding that this committee take action.