Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
When I put forward the motion, I tried to create a consensus on two points: one, that we get a charter statement; two, that the ministers testify about a charter statement put out by the Department of Justice. It wasn't to create ministers as a panel of witnesses that were partisan. The ministers were there to deal with a statement put out by the Department of Justice. However, if there is a desire, I can also think of many experts who are as proficient in this matter as Michael Geist is. If there is a desire to have an expert panel for each of the four parties represented on the committee—not three of the four, but all four—can I suggest that we subamend Mr. Waugh's proposal to say that we would have two different panels? We would have one with the ministers and their officials, hopefully on Friday of this week, so that we can move forward, and one at our next meeting, on the Monday of the next week, with each party putting forward an expert witness to testify on that panel.
If we could subamend Mr. Waugh's proposal to do that, hopefully then we would have a consensus to move forward and get everything done. We could then move back to clause-by-clause study after the charter statement, the ministers' appearance, and the expert panel. Even if I wanted to continue clause-by-clause study at this point, I can see, based on our last three meetings, that we're never going to have the ability to actually do that until these things happen.
I look to Mr. Waugh, but I would be happy to subamend his amendment to do that. Maybe I just did.