Good. Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Clerk, for alerting the chair to this.
I'm going to speak against Ms. Damoff's amendment, only because I think it takes away from the urgency of our having to have these meetings now. If it is “as soon as possible”, then it may end up being next week or the week after or the week after that, and, yes, that does not at all take away from the integrity of our clerk and our chair to make this happen ASAP but the point is that this is urgent. We need to do it now. The study will not be to look into the current operations but to come to a better understanding of how we got to this point in the first place, where the government feels that it needs to take upon itself this extraordinary power available under the Emergencies Act.
Also, we, committee members, have to plan our week as well and so I think it's very important for us to stick with the determined dates and make the meeting happen.
For those who are saying, well, you know, the officials, law enforcement people, may not have time to come to the committee, we're talking about one hour, and one of the earlier speakers also made the point that with Zoom technology it's just so much more readily accessible. Furthermore, I would note that the police authorities have daily briefings, so they certainly have the time to do that, to reach out to the public to keep them informed. Surely they have time to come before the public safety committee and explain to us what is going on.
Thank you very much.