Madam Chair, first of all, I want to say that I understand that the members from the government side are not going to be able to support this kind of motion because it actually goes against their own policy. However, what was just stated by Joy really has nothing whatever to do with this. What this committee has decided to do as part of its work, in terms of our priority, in terms of trafficking, has nothing to do with the government's decision to cut and to change the mandate of Status of Women Canada, which is a whole other issue.
Members of the committee do have the right to put forward motions, as we have. We give 48-hour notices to indicate to the government that we are happy or unhappy or want something different with respect to that other activity, which has nothing to do with this committee's work plan. The two are not interlinked.
The work plan is something we are doing, a study on a specific issue. The Status of Women mandate is a whole other situation altogether.
Obviously, Madam Chair, I will be supporting this, and I hope my colleagues on this side will too, because it goes to the core and to the heart of what the whole of programming for women in this country is and has been about. I will not go into details because I don't want to waste our witnesses' time, except to say that you might want to canvass to see who is for and against, Madam Chair, and then move on with it.