I think we're all here.
I would remind people that we are in public. I'm not insinuating that you don't behave responsibly when we're not, but we are still in public because we cannot go in camera with this app.
We want to plan for the next couple of meetings. We tried to get a bunch of names of witnesses from organizations. I believe you all submitted them. If I can get clarification from the clerk, I think the whole list of witnesses that was submitted by every party was sent to all of you.
We need to decide a couple of things.
As for the panel itself, usually we have two full hours. Is it the wish of the committee to separate that into two different panels?
I think three maximum per panel would be as much as we could do with all the little breaks we get along the way for technical issues.
I'll finish by saying we have been told we can meet at least once a week. If we meet twice a week on Fridays and Tuesdays....
We also wanted a deadline for submitting new witnesses. That deadline would be May 7, which is Thursday, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Having said that, we may need to get a new round of witnesses. We don't know how long this study will last. If you could submit all the witnesses before Thursday, that would be great. It would help the analysts prepare the list.
If it's okay, we'll use the same formula as we did in our first study where we go with the percentage of the House: 50% Liberal Party, 30% Conservative Party, 10% Bloc and 10% NDP, give or take a few. That gives an idea for the clerk to prepare the lists of witnesses.
That's about all I have to say. I can take some comments, suggestions or questions from the floor.
Mr. Drouin.