Further to that, Mr. Chair, my concern has been that we don't have much time in this spring session. I would like to feel comfortable that at each meeting we have we are getting the most work done possible. I'm feeling a little at a loss now because if we had had a sense that he wasn't coming we would have probably planned other things to do. We certainly don't want to be sitting here scrambling to fill gaps, because we all agree that there are lots of issues.
I don't know what we can do about this in future, but I think particularly in the spring session, since we have so few meetings, we are going to have to have an order of business that we can follow and that we feel we can come prepared to discuss, because otherwise we're losing really valuable time.