Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I'd like to propose that, the committee, in relation to its study of foreign interference in elections, beginning the week this motion is adopted, “add an additional hour to its regularly scheduled meetings, during each House sitting week to accommodate this study.”
The request by Mr. Cooper was to add an additional two hours every sitting week to this study. I am proposing two hours every week for this study, but I'm prescribing that it be added to the currently scheduled meetings we have. The rationale to that is, as you all know, we are going into the end of the session and we have a lot of legislation that comes in. We have a lot of issues that every committee is going to want to finish before the end of June.
I do not want to take up all the leftover available spots every week, because.... I'm not saying our work is not important, but all of the work that the House does is important. To minimize impact, my suggestion is we add an additional hour to all of our current scheduled meetings. I think that is something that can be accommodated. We get the two hours that Mr. Cooper is asking for, which is great, and we also make sure that we're not impacting the rest of the committees.
Madam Chair, I know how competent you are in terms of scheduling. I will leave it to the chair, who is responsible for the agenda, to then schedule our meetings accordingly, based on the will of the committee to see witnesses and so on.
That is my proposal.