Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank, first of all, the Minister of Canadian Heritage for appearing here today as instructed. I want to thank the justice committee also, but we did have on Monday, May 10, as you know, from the Liberal side, Mr. Housefather's motion, and I subamended it, that we would get the Minister of Justice to also attend.
Thank you to the officials of Justice, but all 11 of us agreed in a unanimous motion that the Minister of Justicewould also appear in this committee.
I'm not going to take up further time, I'm just going to flag it now, but for second hour we certainly would like to discuss this because it was a unanimous motion by all parties. We all agreed that we would get the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the Minister of Justice to come before we do the panel.
We have welcomed the Minister of Canadian Heritage here today. Maybe he wants to extend his stay for a few minutes because of my interjection. I want to hear what he has to say, we all want to hear what he has to say, but we are disappointed that the Minister of Justice, as you said, turned down our request, and it was a unanimous motion.
I want us to think about this, and how in the second hour we are going to deal with this.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.