It gets worse on my father's side.
It's not just grandparents; it's also aunts and uncles who quite often are called in, or older relatives. I think what the motion aims to get at are seniors who may be outside of being able to earn EI because they're on pensions. I would strike out “Canadian grandparents” and put as an amendment “older relatives, in particular seniors, who become guardians”. I would just change that one phrase to make sure we capture the real dynamic of the complexity of Canadian families.
The second one is that none of the other motions sets the number of meetings. I think it's pre-emptive and a little early to start carving out certain weeks and certain meetings. I would just strike “the study comprise no fewer than 4 meetings”, that phrase between the semi-colons. Once we have set which motions we've accepted, then we can set a calendar that marries itself with the parliamentary timetable, the committee timetable and the number of sitting days we have. We may find that if we start allotting days now, we have no days for the priorities we set later.
We'll come back to it in good faith once we have all the components of the agenda on the table, and then we can apportion the calendar as we move forward.