Mr. Chair, I absolutely understand where you're coming from. I think for the record, though, it needs to be understood that this is a very unusual committee. Its obligations are enormous. I mean, this is one of the few committees that has to hear from people in an industry that crosses Canada. I'm not saying it's any less or more serious work than other committees; I'm just saying the work is voluminous. We don't have the luxury of having some accountants come in here to talk to us about the state of the books, or spending all our time on two or three witnesses.
I think the public needs to know why our expenses may have been larger. The public needs to know that we've had to travel across the country to go to the industry, to farms, to processing plants.