Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I would support what Mr. Lake just indicated. I did check just briefly with the whip's office. The whip's office is giving us no direction on committees. It's up to the committees to determine if they choose to meet or not.
I would place a higher priority on this than what we are currently undertaking at the heritage committee. I will bring a motion to the heritage committee and I hope to find support to suspend, just while we are reviewing this bill, and apply that time to this committee, which would open up an opportunity for us to meet a little bit more here. It's maybe not as much as we'd like, but it may be better to get part of a pie than the whole pie. I'll take what I can get. We'll try to increase that a little bit and try to demonstrate the priority that should be placed on this committee.
Mr. Chairman, members of the opposition should know that both ministers, from Canadian Heritage and from Industry, are prepared to meet with the committee and to appear before the committee on Thursday. I think the members of the committee should allow that to occur.
I'd like to see support for this amendment that we meet Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It seems like the fix may be in a bit and we're not going to get it, but if members are not going to support that we meet on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, in addition to the 3:30 to 5:30 that they're proposing for Mondays and Wednesdays, I would ask that they allow the ministers to appear this Thursday morning. They are prepared to do that.