Once the panel members are identified and the panel is struck, we anticipate that it will be at the call of the chair of the panel. There may be merit in having a few conversations or meetings that are not actual funding requests but contextual sessions during which we could perhaps go over the process, for example, from a Treasury Board Secretariat point of view. It's also quite likely that before the panel has to deal with an actual funding request, various agents of Parliament may seek to appear before the panel to describe their world, so a reciprocal education process would be started up before the panel looked at a true funding request.
On October 25th, 2006. See this statement in context.