Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am a bit concerned about this. While I appreciate that it's a compromise approach, and I know we work well with compromises at this committee, our understanding is that what this amendment substantively does is allow the government up to over 100 days to respond, and when the government has prepared its response, then we can have a debate in the House of Commons.
However, how we the Conservatives have worded this motion, a debate would be much more imminent in the House of Commons, meaning that representatives from all major parties would have the opportunity to debate and ask questions of the government and other parties about the impact and the magnitude of what's transpired over the last number of weeks with the American administration's changes to the tariffs.
I have some concerns that this amendment would mean there would be a considerable delay. In fact, I believe it could take us to next fall. This debate needs to happen now on the floor of the House of Commons, and we are really not amenable to any amendment that could potentially delay it until the fall.