Thank you.
I'm not speaking specifically on the motion, but more about how we're doing this and the process we're using. As committee members know, we have had several meetings in camera where we have sat down and some of us have put forward a notice of motion. I have a notice of motion from well over a year ago to do a study about the mental health of immigrant women who have faced sexual violence in conflict. I know that others have put forward what are really important motions to them.
I did that well before we even did the sports study. I'm finding that, as vitally important as Michelle's motion is, there is a fairness in this committee. We have sat down, for two years now, where each one of us has things we want to discuss. We've not done it with some emergency, half-hour public session to make sure that everybody out there knows that we're doing it, and then if we don't, it looks a little bit like an ambush, like we don't think that's an important issue.
Lots of issues have been raised—Sonia's one on health, and several others that I think are really important. This is such a good committee and such a consensus committee. I don't want to get to a point where we're all about just getting a clip to put on social media to embarrass each other when we're the committee that has done more reports and more good work—and all of it by consensus. We've heard and given voice to more women in this country than any other committee.
I don't think this is a fair way to do things. I don't want to say right now that I'm opposed to this, because everybody out there will think that I don't care about women on transit—which of course I do. I also think that people work really hard to put proposals forward, and then they say, okay, I'll put mine on the back burner because, say, the sports study is very urgent right now, or there might be another urgent one. Then they wait patiently and quietly to make sure that they get the study that they care about. I don't think this is a fair way to do things.