Mr. Chair, I want to make a clarification. I heard Ms. Boucher say that we would be working four hours. That is not so: The committee will be holding hearing four hours a week. But that may represent 20 or 30 hours of personal work, depending on what you will be doing. I can assure you that we will be reading all the briefs. We have scheduled four hours of meetings for questions, but there will also be hours and hours of additional work. Out of respect for our witnesses, we need to be able to read their briefs.
I will not accumulate a stack of briefs and pretend that I have read them. I will read them. If we have to have team meetings, we will hold them. If we have to organize other meetings elsewhere, we will do so. We must deal with this in an extremely serious manner. Quite likely, when witnesses appear here before us, they will not be able to get all their message across and ask all of their questions. As a result, we will have to refer to their briefs, and we have already received quite a number. I simply want to make the following clarification: the committee as a whole will be working four hours a week, but each and every one of us will be spending hours and hours on this issue. I hope that you understand my point.