Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Obviously, I appreciate the comments of the members at the table. I think, in fairness to what Mr. Angus is getting at, I did undertake to speak to the opposition critics last week with respect to this motion to let them know the committee hadn't been struck.
I had gone to the minister some months go and requested that the minister would appear before the committee soon after it was struck to answer questions that I know all the members at the committee table have, because I was here in the summer when we had an emergency meeting of this committee. That was never resolved, frankly. I think it would only be responsible for those to be resolved so that the committee can move forward and undertake studies that I think would bring value not just to this committee but to this Parliament, and ultimately to those we all represent.
So that's why the minister's coming. And I did make sure that everyone had plenty of notice and I tried to make sure that we could vote on it. I think it's complete nonsense that we'd have to come back here on Wednesday at 4:30 to vote on a motion that, from what I can see, is strongly supported. I'll come back on Wednesday at 4:30 if I have to, but I can't understand why we can't deal with it right now.