Thank you, Madam Chair.
There is an eagerness in the room to get going. I believe it's Niagara day on the Hill, so I don't want to keep Niagara Falls from waiting.
We've come up with a compromise, so I'm going to state what has been agreed to, and if I state anything wrong, Mr. Bittle will throw a computer cable at me.
We've agreed that we will have our witness lists in to the clerk as soon as possible, by tomorrow at the latest. We would like to do a one day five-hour meeting on Tuesday of the constituency week, and there's agreement that the Tuesday meeting would be on autopilot, so it would not be acceptable to move motions during that meeting.
We would then request that the clerk, with her very best resources, schedule meetings in that first week back to the best of her ability, and to have the remaining meetings that week, whether they are for five hours on Monday or three hours. This isn't in a good motion form, but the direction is hopefully clear on that sitting week back for a total of 20 hours of witnesses.