That, colleagues, leaves us with potentially one, maybe two spots on the 12th, one, maybe two spots on 17th, three spots on the 19th, and then that leaves us with the 31st, which is the last day we would be able to provide instructions to the analysts or review an interim report or the final report before it was sent to translation over the break week, if we were to adopt that plan. Then we would come back and we would either continue on with the witnesses, if it was an interim report; if it was going to be a final report, then we would start deliberations about the report. That sometimes can happen in one or two committee meetings; sometimes it takes two or three weeks of committee meetings to go through because we as parliamentarians at the committee can wordsmith it, we can decide what the actual report is.
The analysts generally prepare a very good document, but my experience has been there's always some discussion and debate about what should be added, what should be taken out, and so on. In my past experience as a parliamentarian for 10 years, I've always found working from a list of recommendations and working backwards to create the text that supports the recommendations that the committee can agree upon has usually been the most productive way, but we don't have to do it that way. The analysts can prepare the report with the recommendations as well, and we can go through it, if that's your preference.
I'm looking for instruction from the committee.
Mr. Massé.