Chair, I appreciate the interventions from my colleagues.
Notwithstanding those comments, what I find to be untenable moving forward is the fact that we have so many witnesses and we want to have some sort of a timely response to the conclusion of this particular work of this committee. If we are going to bring witnesses back that we weren't satisfied with the first time around and we can't even get through our first round of witnesses in a proper way, I can't imagine how long we're going to be here. I mean, this session goes until 2025. We just might still be here.
Well, not you, Gwen. I'm sorry.
Would you be amicable to an amendment to this? I'm prepared to present a friendly amendment to our own motion: That the motion be amended by replacing the words “listed on the analyst's work plan dated May 11, 2022” with “who appears as a witness”, and replacing the words “the adoption of this motion” with “the date of their appearance”.
That would then read: “That the motion be amended to say that “provided that”....