Mr. Chair, we have this motion by my colleague Monsieur Villemure to invite some specific people on this item and some people who are left nameless.
If the chair feels it would be appropriate.... I'm beginning to wonder why we would want to name particular people who occupy certain positions within our federal public service who are responsible for different aspects of this. How do we know that person is not about to head off on parental leave, or on sick leave or will leave for whatever reason? What will end up happening is we will have not six, but 12 meetings, because we have to wait. This is going to drag on and on.
I hope that my colleague across the way would consider speaking to the positions that the people who can best talk to these issues hold, as opposed to naming particular individuals. This will allow the clerk to reach the appropriate person and make sure they can come forward, so that we can discharge our duties as quickly and efficiently as possible, even though the framework really is dissatisfactory to me.