Just as a comment, there was great confusion the other day. There is one example that I'll tell you about, and I assume we're getting some more from the clerk at some point. It occurred about three weeks ago in a different context, in a 140-year-old Parliament. As you caught on, Bob, I was very distressed by that.
Others have been around this place, and obviously it's the call of the chair if a meeting completes at a particular time. I've served at a more recent time in this committee and other committees, and if we had a posted time, that was what we went by unless we were into clause-by-clause and that type of thing. But the chair has always had the prerogative to state it was an open-ended meeting, meaning that it started at nine o'clock, with no closing date. There was an assumption that, yes, it was maybe unending, but when we had posted times in other committees....
This is wisdom from other committees, and the clerk may cross-reference as well. But we do have other plans around this place and our whole lives are not taken up by this committee. As important as this august body is, it is a little bit unsettling to have to cancel other crucial appointments because somebody has a different issue or agenda that day.