Madam Chair, I am going to encourage the members opposite to actually vote for this. I think the message—for us, if we support here at this committee that we are going to actually do the work—is that we can send the message off to the government, as you like to call it, that we are going to take the lead on it.
If we do not support this motion, it doesn't happen; nothing happens. The government may take the lead on it.
I think this is an opportunity. In a future meeting, if the government says they are going to continue their process to look at these phantom jobs, well then, fine; then as a committee we make a decision that we don't want a dual-stream process and we back off, or we wait for their report, or whatever.
I think the logical thing to do would be to support this today, saying that we are going to take the lead as a committee on this issue. We will be the ones calling the witnesses and we will be doing the investigation. If we get “pushed back”—as I've learned as a word here—if they say to us no, they're going to do their own, then the committee can make a decision.
But I'm encouraging people to vote for this today, so that we can send a message that we heard it here first at this committee and we are going to deal with it at this committee.