Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I appreciate all the comments that were made, especially those by Ms. Duncan.
I think it's really important to ground this study in the realities that we're in. This context is, I believe, unique in many aspects. Parliament has never had to function within a global pandemic before, as far as I know. I quote from one particular report that has been done on a virtual parliament in the U.K., which said we're confronting “a highly infectious and potentially deadly coronavirus, with a long incubation period during which many people are asymptomatic”.
I think we need to understand and be grounded in this study in terms of why we're doing it. We're doing this study because meeting physically in Parliament actually poses undue health risks for many people who work there, including MPs but also including the many support staff who are needed on site for those physical meetings. I think we're studying this because we have a responsibility to not put any of our colleagues at risk, and I think this is really important.
Although I really appreciate Mr. Brassard's comments that the health committee is doing exceptional work, I really do feel that we need to ground this in a few health experts up front just to keep us grounded. I think we really need to keep our feet on the ground.