I don't have a problem with setting up a witness list so that we can actually start to work and hit the ground running on the Monday. My only concern is that since the committee hasn't been struck yet, there will be groups or experts who might contact the committee, as opposed to already being on our witness list. We have the witness list from last time, but now that the committee is actually struck, there will be people who make contact, so I would like us to meet on Thursday. As well, let's set up a working plan for the first two weeks after we're back, because it's going to take a bit of time to track those, but when we come back there might be 10 or 12 witnesses we'd to want to hear from to make sure we're doing due diligence.
If it's about getting started and getting down to work on the Monday, then I'm fine with that. That's my understanding of “preliminary”; it's so we can hit the ground running. However, we can also make sure that we are not precluding people who may be important to hear from in the study.