We have a hard stop at 7:30. We are back where we started. This is an attempt to never get to this decision. I would very quickly like to remind everybody that, when we passed a motion in good faith—it was unanimously passed by this committee—it read:
That the committee hear witnesses on the topic of C-11, An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts for one meeting lasting five hours during the week of May 23, 2022; that the committee continue to hear witnesses for an additional three meetings lasting five hours each during the week of May 30, 2022....
We are in that week right now. Again, this was a clear motion intended to define what we do, and we are now finding that this has all been a.... It was unanimously passed. We have never, at least while I've chaired this committee, had an exhaustive list of witnesses. When we're going to do work, we make a decision that we will let that work last a certain amount of time with a deadline, and that deadline is stuck to. If we didn't get all the witnesses in before that deadline, well, we didn't.
The clerk works very hard to call witnesses. Many witnesses could not come in during the motion that was moved and unanimously passed, so we have finished our witnesses. We have achieved 20 hours. We have achieved 19 hours this week. Twenty hours in total were asked for, and we will have an extra hour. This committee now has 20 hours. It has fulfilled the request unanimously agreed upon in the motion that I just read to you.
We now need to move forward, in the tradition of committees. There was no minimum attached to those 20 hours, I may add, so we are now moving to the next phase, which is to set a deadline for amendments. We have a hard stop, as I said, at 7:30, so we have a few more minutes for this motion on the floor, in keeping with our tradition and with what we said. I would like to ask us not to go over a motion already duly passed—unanimously passed by this committee.