Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chair, we hope this committee is going to be a little more civilized and that there's a bit of respect for everybody around the table. In an ideal world, we should be able to do this in 10 minutes.
That's why we have a steering committee. That's why we've set the table on this. That's why we spent the whole time the other day putting this together. If we're going to argue about Thursday, to have a report card from the department here--that's what we all agreed on.
Now, if you over there want to rag the puck until the time is up and then we have no...you're showing disrespect for our steering committee. That's all I can say.
At the end of the day, we wanted Alex's bill done. That was priority number one, and that's what we're doing. We thought we would chunk this up until the middle of November, and we can do all this other stuff after. So Alex's bill is number one. We had a consensus that we want one day for the department to give us a report card on what's going on, and then we have the future of young farmers.
I think our committee came out with a very balanced approach here, and I think it's disrespectful if you're trying to change this all around and get into some debate about cattlemen on the Hill. It has nothing to do with our committee report. It has nothing to do with it.