Again, we're providing maximum latitude to the witnesses to appear essentially at a date of their choosing many months after our initial request. We have requested a response from Mr. Spencer Elms, which we haven't heard. In lieu of that, we're being offered hearing from a witness on the same panel as theirs, a witness we haven't asked to hear from.
I think that the committee expressed a specific desire to hear from certain people associated with this organization, including both Kielburger gentlemen, Mr. Li, Ms. Marquez and Mr. Spencer Elms. This addition of another person.... I wonder if they could encourage the employee we requested to appear to make himself available and at least offer the courtesy of a response to the committee clerk.
Perhaps a second panel could be convened with the two employees. We could have the founders and then we could have a panel with the individual that they suggest and the other individual who hasn't seen fit to respond to the clerk of a parliamentary committee that is asking for a response, to which I take great exception.