I call this meeting to order. Just before we go to our witnesses, I'm going to talk a little about upcoming business.
First is on the proposed schedule for hearings for our court challenges program. The clerk has received requests from various people. It has kind of been decided that we'll do it on a panel basis. We propose that it be over three days, if we think we need three days. The first hour of the meeting would have three groups and the second hour of the meeting would have three groups. We'd do that two or three times to get through the witnesses.
The names of 32 people were put forward. The clerk and I have kind of decided that each person who sent in a list of names would be allowed to pick out three groups, and then we could do that.
At the same time, I've just been informed there has been a court challenge to the government's court challenge program. I don't know if it's just a civil suit. I would like a little longer to check the rules. If there is a court challenge on our court challenges issue, should we be debating that, or should we be doing that in this forum? I'll take your advice on that.
We're looking at three names for each person, but I'd like people to go back and research it. When we come to the next meeting we can debate whether it's the right thing for this committee to do, since there is a court challenge going on right now.
Mr. Angus.