Mr. Chair, just for the record, whether my whip or my House leader authorizes the expenditure of these funds, I will not be attending, so you can already knock the budget down by whatever the proportional share is.
I did listen to Mr. Angus earlier in our meeting talk again about not having much time to get the business of this committee done, given the fact that June is just around the corner. Now we're talking about using up perhaps two of our committee meetings for that trip. On top of that, some of us serve on two committees, so that's four committee meetings I would be missing. It's just not justifiable at this point in time. I made that point last time, and I haven't changed my opinion.