Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I'm just looking at the schedule and I'm looking at the list of witnesses. It seems to me that we have a couple of independent, no stakes in the game--no monetary interests in the game--witnesses who would be good to come in and follow up what we've heard from the ministers and the departments. I've met with virtually every group on this list. There's no such thing as a group that has one issue that they'd like to talk about, and I'm sure we'd like to only see witnesses once.
What I would suggest is why don't we start off with Barry Sookman and Dr. Michael Geist, after which we can schedule the witnesses as per the committee's instruction and run through the list? That's how I would recommend the committee operate.
As I've seen—and I'm sure others on the committee have also met with numerous groups on this—their interests are various, but no group has come forward on a single-issue interest. They have interests in various aspects of the bill, which would indicate to me that we might as well just see them as the chair can schedule them.