Mr. Chair, with all due respect for my colleague, I seem to remember that, at the first committee meeting held this fall, we clearly established the committee mandate, which specifically covered these points.
I do not see the relevance of this motion. I find it redundant. If we want to study certain questions, such as economic development or social equity, all parties are entitled to inform the clerk of any witnesses they wish to call. Studies will be conducted in this way. I therefore do not see why we would adopt a motion to this effect, given that our mandate is already clearly established.
Furthermore, you have said yourself, Mr. Chair, during your speeches that, when a witness comes to speak to us about an economic aspect, we will listen to that witness but we will not ask his or her opinion on any other matters. The inverse is true of a witness who talks about another aspect of a question that is part of our mandate, which was established at the outset.