Yes, of course, Madam Chair.
Procedurally, there is no problem with maintaining those timelines. In normal circumstances, when all members would be meeting in the room, those timelines would likely be very achievable in the sense that the committee would be able to sit for as long as it takes in order to consider all aspects of the draft report and make a final decision on the draft report.
However, knowing the constraints in terms of resources that not just this committee but all committees face, and the ability to continue sitting possibly indefinitely, if it does end up taking quite a bit of time to go through the report on June 8, we may not, as we know, have full control over the ability to continue sitting indefinitely. We know that generally a lot of these types of decisions are now made in conjunction with the whips and the House administration based on the allocation of resources that committees need to run.
I am reminding everybody in terms of expectations that, despite the will of the committee to potentially want to do this if this ultimately gets adopted, we may not have full control over our own timetable that would necessarily permit the committee to spend as much time as it wants in adopting it.
On June 8, if the report can be processed within the kind of two-hour window that is generally allotted to committee meetings, then it, obviously, shouldn't be a problem, but, as we know, we don't know how long it might take for the committee to consider the report. Then it does create a problem in terms of timelines in order to finalize it.
Before turning it over to you, Madam Chair, one last point I will say is that, in regular times, this type of motion would mean that the committee would start sitting on June 8 and would continue to sit without adjourning until such time as all of their work is finalized on the report. That is the area where we're having difficulty right now because of the allocation of resources. We may not have all the time that might be necessary for the committee to finalize the report.
One last thing I will say about the June 11 portion of the subamendment, which gives the deadline for the chair to present something back to the House, is that one of the questions that's necessary to dispose of the report comes at the very end, when the committee is asked if they want to adopt the report. Obviously, if the committee was of the view that it didn't want to adopt the report after having gone through the whole thing, there would, obviously, be nothing for the chair to report on June 11.