Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, again, for bringing this meeting together so urgently.
First, let me just say we all strongly condemn the incidents that have been raised. As pointed out by my colleague, Ms. Damoff, the incidents that have been mentioned are currently under a criminal investigation. I also agree with respect to the urgency of this. It's important to hear directly from the minister and, of course, about the quarantine measures and the issues that have been raised.
I think we can all come to some common ground here with the amendment that has been proposed by my colleague to have, perhaps, one meeting with Minister Blair and Minister Hajdu for the first hour, and to have officials in the second hour to answer some of the questions, as Mr. Kurek has suggested.
This is in light of the fact that our committee is already very behind on some of the very important work we set out to do, including finishing up the study on systemic racism that we started back in the summer of last year. There are some very important recommendations in it. It's incumbent upon all of us to have that study completed and presented to the House so we can start on some of the tangible actions to address those issues.
I think that with the amendment we can actually do both things at the same time: address some of the issues that have been raised, which I think are important, and also move forward with the work this committee has set out to do. I agree with the amendment by my colleague.