I do believe we are moving towards something here. I understand the government has an ambitious agenda, but it is incumbent upon us in this committee to be ambitious as well. I will not sit in this committee and lock down the clock because we are saving people money. We have an obligation to set our own agenda here and get something done.
Mr. Abbott, I completely agree. In terms of going to Banff, it was suggested last year and we went to Banff. At the time it was like, well, it would be wonderful to go to Banff, and yes, we'd all learn something. But what would we really accomplish?
We need to be looking at Banff in terms of what you call the context. The context is that decisions are being made in terms of the future of broadcast policy, and as a committee we have an obligation to look at this. Broadcast is very much tied into the future of where we're going with television, how we're dealing with television policy, and how we're dealing with the CBC. We could look at every line item of the $4 billion, or however much, worth of spending and accomplish nothing. I'm suggesting let's stay focused for a period of time and do something.
Going to Banff will allow us to meet with key people, and we can set up meetings. Of course, it only allows us two meetings afterwards. What I think can come out of this is that we went to stage one—we can't do much more. Let's take our final two meetings, wrap up, and then say, now we're going to have the summer and the beginning of the fall to start planning out where we need to go. It will give our committee the time. We can come forward with recommendations about where we need to go. I think we can use those final two days after Banff to reconvene and ask, is there a problem? Are there issues we need to deal with? Or are we going to be able to settle this in three, five, or fifteen sessions?