What I have been talking about is very relevant to the discussion—to the number of meetings and to the kinds of witnesses we are going to call—and again, that was not a point of order.
Where was I? I don't want to repeat and waste the committee's time.
For the Francophone communities, a 2001 study by the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada, the FCFA, which has been referenced today, showed that access to health services in English was three to five times higher than access to health services in French throughout the country. Data from this non-scientific study was compiled following 300 interviews and group sessions with Francophones working in the health care sectors selected from 71 communities.
Mr. Chair, I think you get the picture. This study is extremely important. Communication is absolutely vital to providing quality health services, particularly in a pandemic. This is why this study is important. It's really important that by the end of this meeting, we settle on a group of witnesses, we settle on the number of meetings, and we proceed.
As a number of members have raised today.... The phrase doesn't quite work in English. “Laying an egg” has a different meaning in English, as far as I know.