Thank you very much, Chair.
Now to proceed, what I want to discuss here and state for the record is that this extension will not exist in isolation because it will have a direct impact on the work of the committee. As I was saying earlier, private members' business has the 60 allocated days, so this will actually interfere with the ongoing work of the committee. That, specifically, Mr. Chair, relates to the issue of relevance here: it becomes very relevant.
As you know, a committee is one of the very few places in the House where we actually get to debate issues in a fulsome way, where we get to have witnesses come forward. We even manage to persuade each other to change our views on some issues, based on the testimony or debate that we hear.
The impact of the changes that have occurred in the area of immigration is beginning to be felt in the greater community. We're hearing more and more concerns about how imperative it is that we discuss some of these issues, so that is why—