I'd like to ask one of our clerks a procedural question, because perhaps we're all trying to fit a square peg into a circle.
My understanding was that, if there's something we feel strongly about that doesn't go in the bill, there's a way for the committee to do a report or some recommendation back to the House outside of the bill saying that we're interested in this subject. It doesn't fit in the bill, but we think it should be studied.
What is the right way to do that, if we were to decide that palliative care would be that way?
I just want the members of the committee to consider that because we started a review of the bill early, we started a subject matter study of the bill before we actually moved to study the bill itself. We could report the bill back, and then separately, if there's an issue we think should be studied as part of a subject matter study, we could report back on an issue like palliative care, for example. We could say that it's outside of the bill itself, but that the committee deems it important that the minister consider that palliative care is an important alternative, and should work with the provinces. We could do something like that. I just want to let people know that it's something to consider as we go along. This is an amendment that relates to an issue, and we'll vote on it, but that is an option for the committee to consider.
I just wanted everybody to understand that. Let's get back to the amendment itself.
Mr. McKinnon.