Yes, welcome to the wonderful world of Parliament. But the reality is we have a motion here and the industry committee has a motion to study the credit card issue. I've been in discussions with the chair of the industry committee and we've tried to come up with a proposal to make to both committees.
There are two options. One is that both committees study the issue and try to focus on different areas. Industry would try to focus on competition; we would try to focus more on the credit or the consumer issue. That's a challenge, because you're obviously dealing with the same witnesses, so our proposal is that we do a joint committee. Our session is 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays; their session is Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The chair of that committee says they are pretty much booked up until May 7, so the option we have is to do it on Tuesday, May 12 and Thursday, May 14, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
We have a good organization in terms of witnesses. The challenge is having 24 members. The vice-chair raised that. I don't know whether parties think that perhaps they could substitute so that we actually only end up with 12 members around the committee table, or 13 or 14, rather than 24, but I want to get your reaction to that. If this committee agrees to that, perhaps we could have the two subcommittees meet and do the specific logistics, if we had to.
That is my proposal. That's what the chair of the industry committee is going to propose to his committee this afternoon.
I'd like to hear the reaction to that.
Mr. McKay.