Mr. Chair, we have only one minute left, but Mr. Bellavance raises an excellent point. We're supposed to be ending the meetings at one. We are decision-makers here, and we should be able to decide whether the report is the priority and we're doing it first, or the witnesses are. When you bring both together....
I think Mr. Bellavance raises a good point. I think we can be done with the report rather quickly, but Mr. Bellavance worries that it could take a longer time and the witnesses will therefore have to wait. They may not even be able to appear if it takes a really long time. That's my point. It's not fair to the witnesses.
Let's make a decision; we are decision-makers. Let's say the report is very important and we're putting aside the next meeting from eleven to one for the report. Let's not mistreat our witnesses and have them come on the expectation that we may be finished, when in fact we may not be finished, and they'll just have to wait. Why not be fair to them and say we'll move them off to the next meeting? If we're done at one, Chair, we're done one.
It's the same point I brought up at the last meeting. As a member of the board, I have commitments at one. I have to leave in about 30 seconds. When it's my main committee, I don't like the committee continuing on, because we're going beyond one o'clock.
That's my suggestion. Let's do the report, and let's move the witnesses off.