I have to share my experience with the rest of the committee members here. We issued a letter, or we passed a motion, and that has to have some type of credibility. We're going to lose all credibility. If we asked the immigration committee to study this bill and report back, we have to respect our decision.
If you're willing to speak to the chair, I have no problem with that, and at that point we'll discuss it. We'll just take another 15 minutes on Wednesday before or after our committee meeting to re-discuss this, and at that point we'll decide whether we should go into long hours.
I think everybody around this table is aware of the fact that we could add additional meetings, but just to give some background to Mr. Del Mastro, the budget bill at every Parliament goes to the last second, because the government is slow and dragging their feet.
If we decide to do clause-by-clause the first day we get back, this could be into the House the day after—I think it's the 26th or the 27th—and we're not going to be saving any additional time.
So there's no problem in timing, but I think in terms of credibility we have to respect the motion this committee passed. That's the least we have to do.