Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate the indulgence of the committee, and I thank you, Chair, for your efforts to make this come about. Seemingly, it might even happen from what I understood. So I would move the motion. Hopefully folks have copies. I can read it for the record:
That the Committee invite the Honourable Gerry Ritz, P.C., M.P., Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food, to appear before the Committee on the Supplementary Estimates (B) 2011–12 prior to December 1, 2011.
I would invite my colleagues to support that. I believe the minister is indeed going to come on December 1 for the second hour, and I appreciate the endeavours of those who made that possible.