I don't really see what the issue is here. For me, ultimately, we want to reach some sort of conclusion. To get to that conclusion, I think it would be premature to not actually have the President of the Treasury Board here first, listen to his viewpoints and get his guidance, and then, from that point, build some sort of consensus among the members of this committee on how we should go forward.
To put the cart before the horse doesn't make any sense. If we're going to work in this committee.... You mentioned the two ways you can do that. You can massage things in amoeba-like fashion, and I don't prescribe doing that. If this is going to be a friendly committee and we're all trying to reach the same objective, then we should have the same path to reach that objective. Debating on this and that doesn't make sense to me. I think that it would be possible for us, as adults, as you mentioned—and this is not a very contentious committee—to all work together. I think we should all work together to reach some objective or some conclusion, where all of us work together and bring our experiences into it collectively, rather than have these motions come back and forth.