Very briefly, Madam Chair, I think your idea of extending one of our meetings an hour this week to get the 20 hours is important, and I think the Friday deadline is reasonable. All parties have been working on their amendments all along, so it's not as if we'll wait until the final witness before we start working on amendments. That's not how this place functions.
This is a reasonable proposal. We may not get agreement immediately, but we have a number of other meetings where we can continue that discussion off-line. I think that, in our case, we will be getting the amendments in this Friday for 4 p.m., and I expect that most parties will be doing that, because it's a simple matter of respect for our employees.
I agree with Mr. Nater about the additional hour and I support that request from the Conservatives. Let's add that extra hour. Let's have the deadline for Friday and let's continue the discussions when we get a chance over the course of the next three or four committee meetings today, tomorrow and Thursday.