Thanks very much, Madam Chair.
It's been a good conversation. I certainly agree with the intent of this motion. I liked Mr. Blaikie's attempt to try to potentially shorten (c) and (d) to one hour each, just in view of perhaps getting things condensed into one or more meetings.
I was going to ask for clarification from Mr. Doherty about paragraph (d), where he asked for two hours for the president of the Queen's Privy Council and officials of the leaders' debates commission and wondered whether that would be for one hour each. That is what I had assumed when I read it, but it wasn't clear just the way it was stated.
Also, personally, my calendar for the break week is completely booked. I couldn't book more things during that week. I really think it's going to be virtually impossible for me to participate in a meeting if we were to try to schedule one for that week. That doesn't mean that I don't feel this is important, because I do. I think it's extremely important, but I would just caution against that.
I think that all committee members are likely in a similar circumstance where they've had.... Now that we're in a more regular schedule—which we did not have for a long time during this pandemic, when we've been doing parliamentary business that we would normally do on the Hill, as well as constituency outreach work at the same time—we're counting on those constituency weeks for us to be available to our constituents. That's all I would say: that it's going to be quite difficult.
Thank you.