Thank you, Mr. Bittle.
Before we move on to discuss Tuesday's business, I just want to let everyone know that this afternoon I will be reporting Bill C-18 as amended to the House.
I want to echo what everybody has said. For a chair, the process is sometimes bumpy, but that is par for the course in terms of many political parties having different points of view. However, I would like to say that overall the ability of the committee to come together as a standing committee, to get this bill moving and to finish the clause-by-clause took a lot of collaboration. I want to thank everybody for collaborating so that the process went smoothly at the end of the day and so we can send this bill to the House before we rise for Christmas.
I also want to thank Kevin for pitching in there for me when I was in Poland and for pitching in when my computer did not want to work last week. I want to thank him for that.
I also want to thank everyone, including Mr. Méla, for giving me all my little pieces of things so that I could do it efficiently and effectively. I want to thank the officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage who came here and answered so many questions to actually make sure that everyone understood exactly what the bill is meant to do, what amendments are meant to do, etc.
I want to thank everybody and, of course, our clerk, Aimée, for making this process move very smoothly.
Finally, I'll ask Aimée to comment, but on Tuesday, as the committee had decided, we have asked Mr. Cromwell to come.