Thank you for those comments, Mr. Vaughan and Mr. Housefather.
I'll just reiterate that I am open to amending and I would seek your amendment to the motion to change the initial date. I believe I've already provided a copy of the motion to the clerk for distribution and would welcome further scrutiny of it.
At previous meetings, we've taken a five- or 10-minute recess to review a motion on the table. Perhaps, Mr. Chair, that's an acceptable option at this time, but as I said, I'm very open to an amendment on the date. My purpose here isn't to study; it is to provide oversight. I want to see public servants coming before Canada right now and saying, they're three months into this program and they've outlined so far that they have purchased 1,000 homes—I'm giving you an example—and next month they will have all these things going on. We're in negotiations with these housing providers and we're going to be at this level next month.
Parliamentary committees don't often take that type of role in the oversight of government programs, but as I mentioned previously, right now extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I'm not opposed to what the government is doing on the rapid housing initiative. I want to make sure it's serving the people who need it most in the most effective way. The spirit of my motion is to ensure that those urban indigenous housing providers, be they in Winnipeg or Vancouver or Toronto or Montreal, are getting the services that were promised by the Government of Canada in that six-month period. It is a big goal and we have a responsibility to make sure we're meeting that goal on behalf of Canada, to help those people in need.