Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think that scenario presumes on the future. I understand there is other private members' business that will have to be considered by this committee. There may be further government legislation that we don't know of yet that would have to come before this committee--any of a number of possibilities that could put off our timetable.
I always work under the understanding, why put off to tomorrow what can be done today? Presuming on the future I think is an irresponsible thing for this committee to do. There may be many things that come in February to the early spring that could push back the CEPA review even further, and suddenly what looks like we have a lot of time isn't a lot of time.
This is only one additional meeting for the next five weeks. It's not an awful lot of extra work to ask of the committee, and I think it's better to get the job done now, break the back of this work, so that when we come back, we have only two more meetings for witnesses and then three meetings to write a report.
I would rather worry about five days' worth of meetings in the new year than several more than that, because there may be more business coming that the opposition may not be aware of. So I think it's time to get this thing done.