No. Madam, I understand that. Just a moment. I have a responsibility to try to maintain order and decorum and to keep the committee moving in the right direction. Let me finish.
We have two meetings to go. These are the consequences. We passed Madam Freeman's motion at the last meeting, that the witnesses be asked to appear no later than June 16, next Wednesday. We don't meet on Wednesday; we meet on Tuesday. So presumably, once we have our meeting next Tuesday, if there are no further witnesses who had been summoned who appear, then the report we have before us—should it be agreed upon—would be in a position where we could deal with it at the meeting on Tuesday and we could authorize the chair to table the report in the House, which could happen on the Wednesday or Thursday.
If we call a bunch of witnesses—and we have Mr. Walsh proposed for next Tuesday and there are more witnesses—we will never get around to talking about a report to the House. All of the work we will have done will not be able to be reported to the House by next Thursday. I understand it's possible the House may rise on Thursday, which means this whole matter and all the work that has been done by this committee will not be finalized until we return in the fall. If that's the will of the committee, we're on the right track to make that happen.
Madam Davidson, and to other members, all I'm saying is I've seen this before. I know the route we're on right now, and the intent of anyone who continues down that route is that they don't want to have this reported to the House. That would be a valid interpretation by any observer.
Mr. Poilievre has the floor and he has proposed an amendment to Madam Freeman's motion that we call Mr. Walsh. He has proposed to say that rather than calling Mr. Walsh, he would be more interested in calling the Minister of Transport to appear. That's where we are.
Now I am going to stop and we're going to see how many points of order and other things we're going to have.
So where are we, Mr. Clerk?
Madam Davidson was first. She called a point of order.