It's not in the motion. I heard a consensus of the committee that since the deputy minister has volunteered to attend, that as a courtesy to the deputy minister we would hear from him first, while having the witnesses here so that if for some reason he isn't here the witnesses would be here. That was the general idea.
If the committee wants to change that, that's fine. I really don't see that there's much difference between proceeding on Thursday and Tuesday, with the exception that the deputy minister cannot appear on Thursday because he's not here.