Mr. Chair, I think this was a good leadership initiative by Mr. Trost. If it's going to turn into a symbolic gesture, which Mr. Alghabra says is all it is, it's going to be because the opposition does not want to go ahead with it. We can certainly include it in the report, but we're into April already. It seems as though for the last six months, the opposition has.... We've switched topics; we've talked very much about doing forestry and getting our report out, but we're still not at the point of having a finished forestry report. We would like to see that as quickly as possible, but we think we need to take some initiative on this if we're going to be able to host it and sponsor it.
I think we need to pass the recommendation that we do that and call on the minister to convene this round table and get on with that. That doesn't preclude anything from being in our report; it doesn't preclude having a report with other recommendations, so I think we should pass it.
Mr. Trost has indicated he's willing to table it if the opposition insists on that, but my opinion is that it would show good leadership from this committee to pass this motion and then to try to move ahead with this conference.