I recognize, Mr. Chair, that you're not going there, but the parliamentary secretary certainly is. He's suggesting that the list of witnesses doesn't meet his expectations.
Sorry, I didn't ask witnesses to meet your expectations. I asked them to come and offer up whatever it is they decided to bring to this committee that talks about meeting consumer demands. So far I haven't heard anything over there that doesn't fit under this umbrella. Now it might scoot out the side, not to people's wishes, and it may not quite fit under the umbrella the way exactly they would like it to, but the reality is it does fit—albeit not exactly as that nice little round peg in the round hole.
If this is where we're headed—we don't like the witnesses because it doesn't quite fit—then how do we ever do a study? It's like doing an experiment and saying, I expect when I strike the match to see fire; I saw fire, but I didn't determine whether the match was wet or not because I never looked. I never asked anybody. I just said the match will light and I'll get fire.
The reality here is if we're supposed to explore Growing Forward 2, which I thought was the agreement we wanted to have, then let's explore it; let's not narrow it.
I don't think we're getting off to a very good start. We're now doing an umbrella with the next piece, Mr. Chair, and if that's going to be narrowing the umbrella, then I guess we need to revisit exactly how we do these pieces one by one.