Thank you, Chair. I appreciate the motion. We do have the minister here. I think it's very appropriate that we deal with this now. I'm disappointed that we didn't go straight to questions, but this is a way of dealing with it, a very important issue that my colleague has raised. I think the motion is appropriate and if we deal with it now, then we'll have an opportunity as a committee to give direction to the minister that this is what we'll be doing.
I'm also concerned that this issue is not a new issue. This is an issue that has been brought by my colleague before, and other members of Parliament, and the government has promised in the past that it would deal with this, and it hasn't.
That's why we have this before us today.
We are here today entertaining a motion like this because the government has moved a motion to stop debate in the House, and also to cause a vote where we have to be going back and forth. There's a vote to return to orders of the day, which took away a half hour of this meeting, and that first half hour would have been an opportunity when the ministers would have spoken.
The government moved that, and members of this committee—the government members—actually supported that in the House, so we started this meeting a half hour late. So for us to deal with this motion now, I think, is a necessity, and—