Thank you.
I think it's critical to get the ministers in here as well to hear what they want to set as priorities. I think it's helpful for the minister as well. It's an important two-way dialogue that can also help shape us in terms of our work.
I like the idea of doing another manufacturing study. The reason I suggest it is that you can separate it, as we did, into different components. You'd have innovation as a component. You would have, for example, automobile manufacturing and aerospace. You can define all these different types of things, and it would be good groundwork. We did a couple of reports that were very good.
We have four years. One of the most difficult things about this committee is narrowing down from so many different topics, but a general study on manufacturing gives us plenty of opportunity. We could have one meeting on that subject and one meeting on another subject and get from that what their interests and priorities are. From there, we can move forward.
We had a series of recommendations. Some of them everybody will agree with and some of them we may not. We could have a supplementary report. Instead of a dissenting report, what I'd prefer to call it is a supplementary addition. It's not seen as negative, as a dissenting opinion is. It's just a difference of opinion. Sometimes they're necessary and sometimes they're not.
One thing outside the sandbox is studying food pricing through the retailing and distribution of it. I've met with a couple of food suppliers who have inefficiencies in their systems. With the price of food going up, there's an opportunity to discuss that. It includes the border and it includes producers' relationships with retailers.
There are all kinds of other things that can come up, but those are just a couple of ideas. Of course there's Postmedia as a smaller thing. That's important, as well as Canadian takeovers. We're looking now at the situation related to Rona, for example.
At any rate, that's why I like the general idea, in particular, of manufacturing, and then agreeing on the different components and having special meetings on each section of those components and building a really good report that could lead to recommendations and some other study deriving from that.
We're also very conscious of the fact that the minister eventually is going to have legislation that comes here. We understand that's a priority for the committee to take care of.
Thank you.