Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses.
Your contribution is essential to our committee's discussion.
With all due respect to my colleague Mr. Richards' motion, I also want to table a motion that doesn't affect motion M-110. However, I think that my motion is related to all our work.
My motion is as follows:
That Shawn Bayes, Executive Director of The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, be asked to appear before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities on the current eligibility rules and regional variations in service delivery which result in some of Canada's most vulnerable and poorest children being further materially deprived and marginalized.
I sincerely hope that the debate on this motion won't lead to the same outcome as the previous motion.
I could simply share my speaking time right now with Ms. Bayes, who is here and who has travelled from Vancouver to Ottawa. You can determine whether she should be given 15 or 30 minutes.
I know that we have a busy schedule. However, having heard her, I sincerely believe that her input is important to our committee's work.
Thank you.