Thank you, Chair.
As much as we're part-way there, we are not the whole way there, and let it not be left unsaid that what we were invited to today was not a planning meeting.
Are we prepared, as New Democrats, as the official opposition? Yes.
Am I disappointed that my counterparts across the way aren't prepared to have a planning meeting today? Yes.
We have seasoned veterans on that side of the table who would have known the process and could have acted accordingly, and we actually could have moved forward today.
So my expectation, Chair—and I say this only as an expectation—is that at four o'clock the government will look to adjourn and look for a planning meeting on April 24. So I would move the following amendment to the main motion, beginning with the third line, where it says “and that the committee hold a planning session at the meeting of April 24”: that the session be held open and in public, not in camera.