Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think I saw the motion just come through to my email. That was going to be my first question.
Again, my only comment about this is that we're doing another study to look into this. We need to remind the current government that they are the government. They've been the government for nearly six years. They've actually proposed three bills on electoral reform. One in the previous Parliament was just left unmoved and unloved on the Order Paper and never proceeded past second reading.
Here comes the government once again, from the deputy whip, wanting to have a study to look into this, to propose something to happen at some point in the future, knowing full well that today is the final committee meeting of this sitting of Parliament. We cannot meet over the summer, because the government has not come forward with any proposals for hybrid meetings during the summer, so the earliest this could be undertaken is at some point in September, when we are all back in person in Ottawa. There is no other option right now, other than 338 of us returning to Ottawa on September 20, when we know the Prime Minister is seriously thinking about, and all the measures point to the fact he's going to take a trip over to the Supreme Court to ask the administrator to dissolve Parliament at some point this summer to cause an election. None of this is going to be happening or changed prior to an election happening. There is speculation they will appoint a Governor General, so he may not have to go to the administrator, but to the Governor General.
Again, I don't have any qualms with the actual motion. Obviously, it's something we're going to support, but it's just so typical of what we're seeing right now: talk and no action. If the government wanted to go forward with this, they could bring forward legislation. They could bring forward an angle to actually make this happen, rather than asking this committee to undertake a study.
Obviously, I suspect Liberal members of this committee got a bit of a push-back on social media regarding that last meeting. That's the joy of being a parliamentarian, taking that backlash. Now they're going forward with something to try to calm those concerns.
The Liberals are the government. You have the legislative powers at your disposal. You have the entire apparatus of government at your disposal. You have the Privy Council Office. You have the entire mechanisms of government to do something, and here we have a proposal to move forward with another study.
Those are my comments. I will leave it there, Madam Chair.
I'm very snarky today, so I do apologize for that.
Thank you, Madam Chair.