Honestly, Mr. Chair, I'm thinking of the people who are watching us at home. We're working on a sub-amendment to change the date from November 17 to November 24 and to add a series of meetings that will conclude the period of testimony. However, the first paragraph hasn't been adopted and we're hearing about the day following the final witnesses, but the main motion contains a date.
I proposed another date in order to push back the process of submitting amendments. The Bloc Québécois proposes a sub-amendment designed to rely more on meetings than on dates. I think that's very smart. Now we're being told that if we act on the basis of meetings, we'll be able to submit our amendments after the final meeting.
Nothing makes any sense in all that. We can't see our way through all of this. So I am reaching out to my colleague the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Official Languages, who heads up the team opposite and who has introduced this motion to restart the process. Let's erase it all and start over. We've held five meetings, and there are 23 minutes left in this one, after which we're going to realize that we've wasted another one.
It's true that we've had technical difficulties this week and that we had even worse ones last week. So it's not always the fault of the members of the committee. However, if we want to further the cause of the Acadians, Franco-Ontarians and all francophones in Canada, we have to make decisions. Let's settle our disagreements and start over.
That's my comment on the second amendment to Mr. Beaulieu's sub-amendment, which would apply to my amendment and to Mr. Serré's motion. That sums it up. Do we know where we stand now?