Mr. Chairman, I don't know whether this motion requires notice or not, but I'm hoping that colleagues would agree that one of the things we could ask the researchers and the clerk to look at.... I think the two meetings at the end of July and the third week of August will be instructive. I think we should also, as a committee, consider whether we want to go to Washington to meet with some members of the United States Congress. It's obvious that the role of our counterpart legislators in the Congress and the Senate has been instrumental in this whole discussion on softwood lumber over the decades, and other colleagues who have been on the committee longer than I have and have followed these issues probably know more than I do.
All I would suggest, Mr. Chair, is that the clerk perhaps look at the possibility, perhaps in early September, of meeting for a day and a half in Washington, and prepare some options for discussion. The committee could look at this informally, for 15 minutes at the end of July or even on August 21. Just ask the clerk to examine what the options would be for this committee to go to Washington for maybe a one-day meeting or a day and a half at the most, and try to meet some key members of the United States Congress in the House of Representatives and the Senate who have been instrumental in this whole discussion of softwood lumber in the United States.
As I say, I'm not making a motion that the committee travel. I'm simply asking if you, Mr. Chairman, would agree to ask the clerk to look at some options of how this could be done, and then we as a committee can discuss it further at the end of July or even the middle of August.