Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to share some information today that I think is of the utmost importance and that concerns me a great deal. I would like us to discuss it to see what we can do about it.
On Monday, I believe, I learned that the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights has set up a subcommittee that will study solicitation in order to complete work that had apparently been underway for several years. I think that our participation on this subcommittee is of the utmost importance. To my mind, it must not be done without us, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
This subcommittee is no longer at the consultation stage, according to what I gathered, but is actually drafting a report that will undoubtedly lead to a bill on solicitation. So I think it is crucial for us to get involved in the subcommittee. I do not know what procedure we could use to do that. I am throwing out the idea to committee members around this table to see what can be done. Moreover, if there is already consensus around the table that we should be involved in the discussions, we need to look at how we might do that.
Should we create our own subcommittee to make an additional contribution? I think it would be unfortunate for there to be overlap. It would be better to get involved on the subcommittee and to work with those members to put out a document with some consensus. That is one of my concerns.