I'm going to just go back to the clerk for a second.
Let me now go to Mr. Caputo, because it's his amendment we're dealing with.
Based on the discussion that we just had, I'd have to go back to Mr. Caputo and ask, if he's in agreement with this, if he would withdraw his amendment, and then we can deal with Mr. Housefather's subamendment as the amendment. We're actually not specifying a date. We're leaving it at the discretion of the chair, and of course we're going to make our best efforts to contact them.
It wouldn't change the motion in any way, with the exception of.... It would still allow the committee to “summons Felix Papineau and Shawna Parker to testify before this committee”. It would strike “on December 10” and it would then say “at a date determined by the chair in consultation with the vice-chairs and the NDP”. Then it would continue on to say, “provided that the chair and clerk be directed to retain, if necessary, the services of a skip tracer to assist with the service of the summonses.”
To me, that is a reasonable solution.
Mr. Caputo, I'm going to leave it to you, sir.