Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to move a subamendment.
This is being circulated now. After the words “a Canada without barriers by 2040”, I would like to move that we add “and given the testimony heard by the committee on February 5, 2024 that, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee hold no less than two meetings to study the progress towards a barrier-free Canada; that the committee invite the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, Canada's chief accessibility officer, the Auditor General of Canada, Canada's accessibility commissioner, disability advocates and federally regulated industry representatives;”.
That would be the end of the subamendment.
To be clear, it would then be followed by “and that it report its opinion to the House”, which was already in the original amendment.
The intention of this is to clarify that this would be a fulsome study. We heard testimony during the last meeting from Canada's chief accessibility officer, who had a serious incident with Air Canada. We know the Auditor General of Canada has done an audit on persons with disabilities in transportation. We have not had the Auditor General here yet on this. She wrote to this committee saying she could come to committee. This would be the perfect time to put this together because of this particular study we're doing.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.