I call the meeting back to order.
Here's the plan moving forward. The first hour on Wednesday this week, as we agreed upon previously, will be for the CRTC officials to come and talk about their mandate and some specific decisions that I know members are eager to discuss.
As far as the schedule moving forward is concerned, it's going to look like this. We're going to have a rotating schedule of the two studies we passed motions for, on productivity and industrial defence policy. This will be dependent upon the availability of witnesses. For example, if one study is not able to accommodate the witnesses who would be needed for an effective or efficient meeting, we won't burn that meeting; we'll go back to the other study, assuming we have enough witnesses, so that we keep the ball rolling.
The consequence, if you will, of running concurrent studies is that it will take the analysts more time to provide a draft report to the committee. We should anticipate that we will not get draft reports until about December, so please temper your expectations in terms of getting reports back to the House on either of those two studies prior to the House rising in December. It's simply not possible when we're doing two studies concurrently.
Which study we begin on Wednesday in the second hour, as I mentioned a moment ago, will be dependent upon the availability of witnesses, but there was agreement among party representatives that that is okay.
There is also agreement—we have not passed a specific timeline, but I want to state this publicly on the record—that when we have concluded the two studies before us, we will move to Monsieur Ste-Marie's motion on AI, notwithstanding legislation that is presented to us or something else that requires our immediate attention as a committee. The plan is that, should members put forward new motions for study from this point forward, we are honouring Monsieur Ste-Marie's study as being the third in the queue. As I said, this is assuming that we don't have any other urgent legislative or political matters before us.
I don't think this is going to require any type of formal vote. I'm just looking around the table to ensure that there's no further commentary on any of this. Okay.
Before adjourning, colleagues, I want to comment quickly on one thing for the four Canadians who are watching the live feed of the industry committee right now. It is really important to note how well we have started here in building consensus. Members of parties are elected by their people to come to Ottawa and advocate, but working so cordially, productively, effectively and efficiently together in order to ensure that these interests that matter wholesale to Canadians across a variety of topics can be elevated to the floor of our discussion here at industry, I think, is really important. I want to provide my gratitude and thanks to the representatives of all parties and all members for their willingness to work together quite promptly to make sure that we have some important business before us.
With that, colleagues, the meeting is adjourned. I'll see you in a few days.