My comments are along the same lines as my colleague Mr. Breton's.
Asking the minister to come on a precise date without even knowing his agenda is like asking you guys to be in your ridings on March 7. You're going to have some challenges, because you have to be here in the House. We don't know what he's doing that week.
I know we asked the minister to come today, but he couldn't come today. Perhaps he will come that week. We don't know. However, telling him that he must be here at a certain time when he just couldn't make it today.... It's not being unreasonable to say that he's going to come in the following week or the week after that or the week after that. I don't think that he has to be there after the first week that we're back here in Ottawa.
Without seeing his agenda, I think it's ridiculous. I do understand, and we all have a shared desire to see the minister here, but I would follow Joe's proposition. It makes more sense to have him come here at his earliest convenience and it's more reasonable.