Yes. Thank you.
Mr. Brassard, as the Speaker explained, the resources that we have available to implement a virtual sitting, both for committees and now for the special committee on COVID-19, are fairly limited. When the Speaker replied to the government House leader as to how we could put in place a full virtual meeting of the House, we indicated that we would not be able to do that much before the middle of May.
The House, in its motion yesterday, decided to create a special committee on the COVID-19 pandemic, where in fact its membership is the entire House. You're going to be having your first virtual meeting next Tuesday. Under the explanations that we have already provided, we do not believe that we will be in a position to allow the special committee to meet with the entirety of its membership. That is beyond our capacity. We were trying to signal that, and I suspect that, when this motion was drafted, they took into account the warnings we had raised.