We were taking out “unable to meet” rather than “ignored” because obviously we know there's been correspondence back and forth with the regular clerk of the committee, who was kind enough to provide updates to the clerk tonight. There is clear back and forth, and therefore an interest on the part of the Minister of Finance to come before the committee. The question is on a date.
I understand that colleagues across the way want to get this settled. I hope that it can be settled. I think it can be settled within a week's time. If it's not, then we would go on to consider Mr. Seeback's motion.
It's almost 9:30. I hope we can squeeze in some questions. Why don't we just agree here that, if we haven't dealt with this in a week, we come back to Mr. Seeback's motion.
We can do an honourable thing here and just agree. As Ms. McPherson said, we've worked well as a committee before. I'm willing to take that message back to the Department of Finance to make clear that we need an answer in the next few days.