I don't know exactly what happened at the subcommittee because I am not on it. However, I have heard from the Liberals on the subcommittee that we were going to discuss Mr. Beaulieu's second motion today. It deals with the official languages, which is what the committee is supposed to study. I feel that we were all in favour of moving that motion forward, perhaps with an amendment.
For the most part, we were very much in favour of going forward with it, because we think it's a very important motion to go ahead with. It's very much along the lines of what we aim to do in this committee and what the role of this committee is. We also have a few motions that we've already tabled and accepted to study and go ahead with. It's unfortunate that we're spending so much time debating a motion that clearly doesn't have much consensus and that has absolutely nothing to do with official languages and with the committee and our mandate on this committee. I think that's really unfortunate.
I definitely think that education is very vulnerable. I know we already passed the motion and I'm happy that everybody was in favour of studying the motion on education, which was one I put forward, because of the vulnerability of people receiving education in the language of their choice, and specifically speaking of minority communities in this case. We know, and we heard a question from the NDP today, that the French university or Campus Saint-Jean was not an option anymore unless other decisions are made. We want to find ways to help French-speaking non-Quebeckers access education in French, and we want anglophones in Quebec to be able to access education in English. I think this is extremely important and vulnerable, as I said.
Every year, we see an example of how this right is taken for granted, not taken for granted, but is not necessarily respected by the provinces. The federal government does have a role to play in protecting this right, and therefore, it's extremely important that we go ahead with this and we start at least to study.... I think this one would be an important one to study first, just because we know that in March, these new decisions on closures of schools are going to be made. I think it's a shame we're still talking about something that has nothing to do with the committee, when we're dealing with a pandemic where people aren't receiving services in both official languages at this point, as my colleague Ms. Lattanzio proposed in her motion.
We have so many great studies on the floor. Monsieur Beaulieu, you're proposing another one that we haven't passed yet and that I think would pass unanimously. I would strongly suggest we move ahead and at least get that one out of the way, because I think that would definitely get unanimous consent quickly. Those are my thoughts thus far.