Thank you, Chair.
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Ménard on the point that he's raised. I think I can safely speak on behalf of my Liberal colleagues when I say that we do appreciate the efforts to try to make this committee work smoothly and to get through the work that we have all agreed needs to be done on Bill C-2 in order to properly report back to the House as per the instructions of the motion.
So I would suggest, as my colleague Mr. Bagnell has done, that those of us who are prepared to provide our cell phone numbers to the clerk do so, and that those of us who are also prepared to provide our personal BlackBerry e-mail address do so. I would also suggest that in future, prior to a notice being sent out, the members be contacted to see if they would be available. If there are enough members so that we have quorum, then accordingly a notice could be sent out. Members would be called and BlackBerried to let them know that this was happening.
I had made other plans for this morning, and luckily my assistant actually went into our office e-mail account yesterday evening fairly late, saw the notice, and immediately BlackBerried me so that this morning when I got up and checked my e-mail, I saw that--oh, my God--we were going to be meeting at nine o'clock. Then I had to scramble to change my agenda in order to be here.
So the process needs to be worked on a little bit, because I know everyone here is of good faith, we do want to get through this, and we want to do it in a proper fashion so that nobody feels as though we're being bousculé.
I don't know the word in English.
I appreciate the efforts you're making to try to get the committee to work well together.