Yes, could we vote to move this to committee business in terms of our subcommittee for the agenda? I'm open to considering this, but we're supposed to get more work done here today.
I like some of the content here, but I think that this is committee business and scheduling, which we normally have the subcommittee look at. That's the only thing. I wasn't prepared to deal with this today.
I also would like to know the financial costs associated with adding these meetings in the summertime because many of the staff here haven't had a break. It will require the House to resume too, so perhaps we could get that as well.
I'm open to it, for sure, but five meetings is basically.... I don't know whether the five full meetings of two hours are going to be done through tele-stuff or... Then, we know that the chair of this committee just had a newborn, I believe. Oh...not yet.
Okay. It would require the chair to have to come to Ottawa to convene the committee, and I don't know if that's really fair. I don't want to get too much in public on this, but the reality is that the chair has to come back here during that time, so we would want to have a backup plan to that, as well, if the chair can't be here. I've been through that before. I had the birth of my son during the old days when we didn't have virtual...and I had one day to go home and come back. I would hate to see that situation take place for the chair, who's been very diligent here in terms of accommodating all of us.
That's why I think we should maybe just push this off a little bit. I appreciate the member bringing this forward in terms of the elements, but there are some practical things I'd like to consider because, again, I don't know if we have all that info in front of us.
Thank you.