Okay. Further on that, you've raised some excellent points. This could be tight, and it could be a monster. We know that. The starting point is that there is the education document, and we want to at least identify that this is broad.
When we have our meeting on the 29th, which is a month later, that's the meeting at which we're going to have an interesting discussion. We're meeting on the first to discuss the backgrounder. I think that's where we're going to start to whittle it down or get some focus.
Then we will instruct our researchers, based on the input, to come up with a proposed work plan and a timeline. That will come back to us by the end of April. We'll have a pretty good idea of the people who will be good prospective witnesses, what a trip might entail, and what period of time we would have available maybe to do that. We'll have representations from other jurisdictions and pretty well anything else the committee wants.
We will be passing this over to the researchers, with their experience. They know that when you're doing a study, these are the steps that you have to make sure you have locked in. Arranging for witnesses is going to take some time, so I'm pretty sure that a lot of our work, in terms of those witnesses and travel, will probably not be until late May.
As always, the committee doesn't move forward until everybody's comfortable. I hope members will have the opportunity to appreciate the breadth of the subject matter and the implications, and will come to have a good discussion a week from now.
Okay, is there anything further?
Is the general thrust of the recommendations of the steering committee acceptable to the committee? Do we have a consensus? Okay.
I don't have any other business, but I would indicate that there is food at the back. We are going to have food at our meetings. I was asked to consider it, and we will do that. We 'll try to modify it based on the amount that is actually needed at these meetings. I suspect that members may have other options more than maybe staff do, but we've included the staff. So we'll carry on with that until we see that we have it right.
Go ahead, Mr. Easter.