The intent is to find out from the department what their plan is and what has happened to a variety of other issues.
If we decide that we want to review all of the previous five reports, before getting any comment back from the government, it will take a lot of time. If we are truly committed to moving forward on a variety of agendas, we need to get some comment back from the government.
I'm in the hands of the committee, but I have a motion in response to those committee reports. Maybe I should read this to see if the committee is interested in going in this direction.
If we decide that we want to revisit the reports that were unanimously supported by the committee before, it will take more than 20 minutes for each, because each one is very important. At the end of the day, if the new government wants to go in a different direction, I think it's important for us to know that so we can be working on whatever is appropriate for us.
I want to make one suggestion here that we would concur in the recommendations of the previous reports:
That the Committee concurs in the recommendations of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women presented to the House in the 1st Session of the 38th Parliament; that the Chair report to the House the concurrence in these recommendations; and that, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee request that the Government table a comprehensive response to those reports.
From the response to those reports, we would know what the government feels. Following that, we could make other decisions on where we might want to go. But it is very important that it be done so that we can get a response back from the government.
It's a suggestion I was going to put before the committee so that we could move on.
Ms. Bourgeois.