It does. I know that there are negotiations that the public is not privy to, where members around this table negotiate how many witnesses you're going to have and for how long the hearings are going to go forward.
To me, the starting point has to be not how many witnesses, but who you need to hear from and who is most relevant. Frankly, as part of the Bill C-18 process, there was an attempt to wrap this up after just four meetings, if I recall correctly, when there was a wide range of people—both supportive and critical of the legislation—who hadn't been heard from.