Just on this question, I heard something different. I don't have the motion in front of me, unfortunately, but it essentially read that this committee in fact concurs with the conclusions of the committee in the last Parliament, and then it in turn submits these for tabling and for government response.
That's the only part I take issue with, and only on a matter of procedure, simply because we haven't had the chance to even look through them to see what's in front of us and whether in fact we concur. So before I sign off and agree with this, in the current form I would vote against this motion, only on the basis that I don't want to sign on as a committee member to just instantaneously adopt the work of the former committee. I don't want to make any comment about its work. I'm sure it was very well done and the conclusions were well put, but this is a new committee and I would think we need at least a bit of time. I wonder if we could table this motion and give ourselves a bit of time and come back to it, perhaps.
I agree that because of the 120 days we need to move this to get a response, but at least let's give the committee the opportunity to digest what the last committee did. I apologize if perhaps we should have done that by now; nevertheless, if we could put this off for even a brief period of time to give us a chance to catch up on that, that would be good.
I agree with Madame Bourgeois that even if it's 20 minutes' consideration or a round-table discussion on the five reports, it might be healthy in terms of just acquainting the members with the subject matter that is contained in those five reports.
I note that, for example, on pay equity, that's a report, in fact, on one of our workplan items, so perhaps there's some tie-in there. But before we move ahead and send these five reports out the door today, it might be beneficial to have a bit of time to at least take them in and make sure that the current committee is completely up to speed on them.