As you mentioned in your explanation, Mr. Chair, there are two groups that do the video conferencing. If we as a committee choose to try to call all of our witnesses via teleconference, we will perhaps unfairly monopolize the video conferencing abilities of the House vis-à-vis every other committee in the House.
Before we dispense with this question, I would recommend that we ask those groups and the folks in charge of them how much of a strain we would be putting on their resources if we asked all of our witnesses to appear via teleconference.
I recommend we suspend debate on this motion and amendment until we have that relevant information. Let's just deal with the budget at hand today and move on, and then come back to it at a later date.