Excellent. Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
To start off with Member Turnbull's—Ryan's— motion that he put forward today, I see exactly what he was trying to do and I respect that. We do need to have some guidelines specifically for the Chief Electoral Officer, because as Daniel said, we don't want things to lead to what they could—so I think it's very important that we do debate and discuss some of these issues that could come up.
As a former chair—and I am very grateful that Ruby brought it forward—I am very concerned about that deadline. I do not see it as something that would work for this committee, especially when it comes to translation and everything that's going on. As a former committee chair, I can tell you it was delayed quite a bit. I recognize that I was not the chair of PROC and I know that there's probably precedence given to this committee on making sure that things are being translated and a variety of things of that sort, but I just do not see how a November 16 timeline could even possibly work.
We also have to recognize that during that period of time, although we are doing with hybrid sittings, we are going to be looking at Veterans' Week, so we are talking about reporting and tabling a report to the House of Commons on November 16 when we actually have only 18 sitting days between now and then, if you're counting Veterans' Week as a potential sitting week, since we have the ability to do hybrid sittings. I just do not think that we would be able to turn around a fulsome report on what we're really looking at.
I would therefore like to move an amendment, and it's specifically to the date. I would like to change the date for report—
Actually, I'm going to wait for that and pass that back because I know that Todd does want to speak on this as well. I will just roll back on that comment, and I will not be moving an amendment at this moment.
I think those are some of the concerns. I have a great concern and therefore I think we need to have that additional three to four weeks to be able to do the work that we need to do.
I do not think we are going to be looking at a report for which we're going to have unanimous consent on every single issue. There's going to have to be not only one draft but also a second draft. There will have to be translation, and if we're really looking at the inner workings of Parliament, it's just not going to do that bit. Those are the concerns that I have there.
When I look at the whole of Ryan's motion, I do see that it is satisfactory in most cases, but I think we also need to get a lot of work done. We know that prorogation should be coming up in the next week as well, so there are many priorities that this committee must study.
I will now turn over the floor, but thank you very much for listening to my comments.