I had two questions to get answered, Mr. Chair, if I could.
If we don't know the timeline of what this motion means, and if there's no timeline, are we ever going to come back to transportation? I need from the government their interpretation of the motion in terms of how many meetings it will be and how long we're going to do that. Then, what's their plan in terms of returning to transportation when we have deadlines that are coming forward. If they're going to say, “We're going to bring in an order in council and extend this...”. We have all of these commodity people whom we've just met over the last while saying, “This is why we were here today”. I don't think they left thinking that we were going to drop it. That's all.
I need to get an answer on those two questions from the mover. When I look at the motion, Mr. Chairman, “Canada's suite of farm income safety nets” and the role of “discovery science and innovation in the sector”—I don't know about the other two areas that are covered in the business risk management program now, as they're not mentioned—and “a wide and diverse range of industry representatives and interest groups from every region of the country”, I'm thinking that we're expected to be out of here in June and that this would not happen in the timeline we have. When you look at our calendar, it's fairly tight. You want to have the significant part of your committee wrapped up in that first week or second week of June, without a doubt. Some of us have been here long enough, and it doesn't seem to matter what government it is, because it's just that at the end, governments have legislation and there are interruptions and it becomes difficult to bring in witnesses, and then we are not able to deal with them or break it in half.
That's just a comment. I'm not getting a sense of much direction in terms of those questions, so I wonder if the government could help us before we have the vote. The time's moving on, Mr. Chair. We only have four minutes left.