With specificity, with regard to the witness we had lined up for today, somebody who is involved with the police service and obviously, to my understanding, with the incidents that occurred had required the attendance of many within the law enforcement community at a funeral. We did not want to impose on that or perhaps suggest that this committee would take precedence over that, honouring the tragedy that occurred.
We took the best course of action, which was to deal with ensuring that over the next six weeks, we have, in coordination with the judicial review, a schedule that is fulsome and one that is dedicated to witness lists that ensure that we can get to the business at hand.
Of course, at the conclusion of those six weeks, the ratio that you suggested, the one-third of meetings being set aside for committee business, would change dramatically. It would be in the course of our business, and we would be able to respond to many of the revelations and different dynamics that have been, I think, uncovered through the course of judicial review and the civil proceedings.
As you know, it's been very difficult to get co-operative witnesses at this committee to provide us with substantive answers, documents and many things this committee has been trying to get. As these other processes play out, it's our intention, through no fault of the clerks, to get the kind of scheduling that will have prioritized witnesses, which would make sense for the work plan.