Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I certainly don't dispute the importance of this topic nor the importance of the motion in front of us. There are a number of different things going on. There is going to be a debate in the House on this topic. I think it's a topic that does concern a lot of people, particularly in central Canada and around the port of Montreal in particular but the port of Vancouver as well.
My concern is that this committee has other business that we want to get to. Folks will remember from the last meeting that I'm particularly interested in the Conservative study on the Lake Erie connector, which I hope we can get to after we deal with our study on the rights of people living with disabilities who are trying to travel by air in Canada and are facing barriers. Those are also important topics to a lot of Canadians.
If, at every meeting, we have additional concurrence motions that take up the committee's time, we're not going to be able to get to those topics.
In terms of importance, I'm not going to argue which one is relatively more or less important than another, other than to say that this committee can do some good work together. It has in the past, and I'm hoping we can continue to do that as long as we sit here at this table together.
In the interest of trying to get us through this and towards a consensus, because I do believe that we've heard that everyone around the table is concerned about this issue of auto theft, I would propose an amendment to change the wording of the last sentence to read, “the committee expresses its concern with these reports and calls on the government to immediately address these resource shortages, as the CBSA falls under the federal government's mandate.”