Just to clarify, you are agreeing to a deadline for witnesses by tomorrow, Thursday, at four o’clock eastern time, yes? That's fine.
I understand that the clerk—and she can clarify this for me—has a list of witnesses from the other parties. Would the committee like that list to be shared? If no one opposes the idea, we'll go ahead and have the clerk share the list that she has and then add Mr. Nater's list by tomorrow at four. Is there opposition? Seeing none, then I think we have accepted two very clear things.
The only thing we need to discuss now is what Mr. Nater is suggesting. John is suggesting that we can't do 10 hours next week. Again, the committee will have to discuss how to do this. We now have had the clerk tell us that she has managed to confirm Tuesday and Wednesday for five and a half hours, with half an hour being the break in between for a change of interpreters, etc., I gather, so we do have a bird in the hand.
I don't know about the following week and what we will get if we try to find the equivalent hours in that time. Again, as Monsieur Champoux pointed out, we're seeing many committees trying to grab whatever time and resources there are. That's one of the reasons why I would like us to make some decisions today. If we don't, if we snooze, we will lose the ability to get any extra time at all. I would like to hear this being discussed.
I have Madam Clerk.