Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The motion is pretty straightforward; there's not a lot to elaborate on. It reads that the committee call, on an urgent basis and prior to March 13, 2008, Mr. Elwin Hermanson, the chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission.
Calling him prior to March 13 may not be possible now, but we need to have him here very, very soon. We have the right to do this; we need to question Mr. Hermanson. I'll tell you up front that we'll be questioning him on an article that appeared in the press, in which he was advocating about areas he really shouldn't have been advocating about as chief commissioner. He swore an oath, I expect, to uphold the Canada Grain Act, and he's talking against it. So I move that we call him before the committee.