Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First off, I think it's very entertaining the way that Mr. Easter has called this an urgent issue and is disrupting the order this committee has.
As noted, Mr. Chair, Mr. Fraser and others are waiting to testify, having been called here. I fail to see why we could not have handled this issue in a matter of 20 minutes at the end of the meeting, as had been previously proposed. I think there is some serious grandstanding going on here. I think the urgency is the 24/7 news cycle, and as long as Mr. Easter and the Liberals can continue to keep this issue percolating along, they will keep it in the 24/7 news cycle.
The thing that strikes me is that the order in which we have been going after the study of open government calls for us to be able to have a meeting this coming Wednesday, when we are going to be giving instructions to our staff, to our clerks, to our researchers so that they can start to work on the report. If you take a look at the work schedule, Mr. Chair.... I have had an opportunity to consult it very briefly, and it seems to me--