On a point of order, Mr. Chairman, earlier I mentioned a concern about the non-random nature of the presentations we've been hearing.
To illustrate the point, I chatted with our organizers outside. We have a limit. We simply can't take more than a certain number of people, obviously. We filled up the allotted time, and it's now 10 p.m. We had to have a cut-off, and 17 people were turned away. There was no avoiding it. There's not a lack of professionalism on the part of the excellent people who are working here, and this is not a complaint about the way the meeting is structured.
I simply want to observe that those who arrived earlier all got on the list until we hit the limit. Those who came after a certain point were simply turned away. In practice, an inevitable consequence of this is that those who have had to come from farther away, who had employment that kept them occupied, who had to go pick up a child in day care, or any of these things you can imagine, but who were unavailable earlier on, were the ones who were excluded.
That leads, I think, to one of the problems we face at these meetings, which is that while the people who come here are clearly deeply committed, and believe very much that they're adding to a better vision for the country, they're not an accurate random selection of where the average Canadian is. It's simply a problem we face, and I don't mean any disrespect for those who did come. I admire them for taking the time, but it is an issue for us.