I think it's important to understand that when we had our steering committee meeting there was a representative from each party. When I left that meeting, I even asked the chair, who was a representative of the Conservatives, “Does this look okay? Are things fine?” And he said yes. So we all came out in agreement.
Normally what happens when steering committees do that, unless there's a lot of dissension, it's basically a rubber stamp, we go on, and we move on. We were led to believe this would be the case, and in that case, that's where we wanted to get these guys in from the department.
It seems ludicrous that a department made up of hundreds of people can't have somebody here to answer our questions. All of a sudden they're in Toronto. On my bill, the debate was shut down because I had agreed to do this, that we could have some people here as soon as possible to look and see what's going on in the farming sector. Now we're backing up again. It's almost as if this side doesn't want these guys to appear. I don't quite understand what's happening here.