I haven't made it yet. I'm just giving notice that I'm going to do that, but the reality is that we are going to have to do something other than what this motion has said in order to cover it effectively. We're going to have to pick two or three areas of it that we can actually do, because there are six or seven things there. If you add in talking about language, which one of the Liberal MPs had wanted to do, and if you talk about making sure all voices are heard, we're going to be here for a while. I think we need to sit down with a scoping meeting and figure out what it is that we are going to attempt to reach on this.
I think that taking this clause out, as I'm going to suggest in a couple of minutes, actually removes the restrictions we have on ourselves right from the beginning. We have 240 days to get this done, but the reality is that we should not be restricting ourselves before we even sit down and talk about what is the content of our report and our committee hearings.
We have a maximum of six to 10 hearings, apparently, so far, with six meetings, and probably a maximum of 36 witnesses. Look at the six or seven things we've been assigned to do. You're going to divide that among 36 witnesses. It's just going to be bouncing a stone right off the top of something. I guess I still have that question: can it be done?
I would make a suggestion on timing, if you folks want to wrap up a couple of things. I think we have two meetings before the Easter break. We have Thursday and next Tuesday. I think next Thursday is going to be seen as a Friday, if I'm understanding correctly. There are two meetings. Does that give you the time to wrap up a couple of these things that you've been working on for such a long period of time? If it does, perhaps you can get them out of the way. We can come back after Easter, have our scoping meeting, our witness meeting, and then begin to take a look at this study after that.