Chair, I want to thank you for calling this special meeting to address something that is, quite honestly, frustrating to a lot of Canadians. I definitely hear it from my community. I want to say to my good colleagues that I hope you're having a great summer, despite the fact that we had this service outage. It's really good to see everybody over Zoom.
The outage is causing a lot of concerns and I think the public is owed some answers. This is not the first time it's happened, so as a committee, we owe the public a reporting on the plan going forward and the accountability attached to this service outage. I have a motion. I move:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108 (2), the committee undertake a study on the recent service outages and disruptions experienced by Rogers Communications Inc. beginning on Friday, July 8, 2022; further, that the committee review 1) the causes of these widespread disruptions 2) the impacts service outages had on Canadian families, consumers, and businesses including, but not limited to, the health care, law enforcement, and financial sectors, 3) best practices to prevent and mitigate similar widespread outages in the future and 4) given reports about Rogers customers not being properly notified, best practices to ensure that impacted Canadians are updated about service outages in a timely and transparent manner going forward, and that the Committee invite as witnesses representatives from Rogers Communications Inc., the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and that the Committee devote two meetings to this study before July 30, 2022 and report its findings to the House.
That is the motion for my honourable colleagues' consideration. I hope you can support it and we can get on with our work on the study as soon as possible.