Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In hearing what I'm hearing now, I'm going to propose this and see what the reactions are of my colleagues. It sounds like there's enough support here to get something off the ground, whether it's two meetings or four meetings. I would suggest that we pass the motion without the.... Being open to that, we'll start next week. We have a subcommittee meeting. We'll have two meetings on this for sure, and at the subcommittee meeting, we can decide how many more meetings there should be. That will allow us to move on right now. It gets us off the ground. Then, during the subcommittee, we could decide whether or not we want to add another two meetings from there.
I know that Mr. Dong mentioned my motion too. I'm always interested in having one to two meetings with regard the executives from the grocery store industry—or at least one meeting—to have them come back to explain their issues over pandemic pay. I hope we can squeeze that in somehow, and if not in this next week, in at least one meeting when we've returned to the House of Commons. I'll park that aside not to get more confusing.
Perhaps, Mr. Fast, you can respond, or Mr. Lemire, if, for example, we have a motion here that comes together and we get two meetings for next week locked in and then we also have our subcommittee meeting where we can decide whether we want to carry on with a couple of other meetings. I will just note that outside of two meetings with witnesses, we will need at least one meeting for preparation for a report or some type of reporting process back to the House of Commons. There's almost a guarantee that we have to have additional meetings, which would have been built into the six meetings, I believe. We need to keep that in mind, because we will need that time.
I'll leave that—if my colleagues perhaps want to comment on that—as a general compromise to get going on stuff, because I really want this committee, which has a history of doing a lot of really good stuff, to just get to work. It's such a big file. This file is huge for industry, and I'd hate for us to get ground out for one or two meetings.
Thank you.