I certainly, as chair, cannot speak to the gentlemen's agreement that was put into place or how that was agreed to. I do have the motion in front of me that came from the House. I also have a general understanding that we had agreed that this committee would meet for a minimum of 16 hours. We did spend our first meeting going through routine motions. One part of that was to indicate the times and the dates that we would be meeting. We agreed to that by a motion.
I take into account what you're saying, Monsieur Ménard. I would suggest that if you would like to alter the schedule and add additional witnesses that you do so through a motion. I would consider it a procedural motion. I wouldn't consider it a significant motion. So if you would like to move a motion that we add additional witnesses and additional time, you're certainly free to do that, but in terms of adjusting the schedule as we have it now, it has been passed by motion and endorsed, so it would require you to move a further motion to add either additional hours or additional days, and of course that would include adding additional witnesses.
Moving back to our issue....
Madam Jennings.