Actually, I do not think I am suggesting operating backwards, quite the opposite. The committee is not the body that establishes the schedule of our meetings and agrees on the topics we are going to discuss. The subcommittee prepares the schedule that then comes to us. We have not had a meeting in order to discuss the dates on which we are going to study various things. We do not deal with that at the committee. It is dealt with first and foremost by the subcommittee, which then provides us with a recommendation.
Unless I am mistaken, what was decided was that we were going to have a meeting in order to study the bill clause by clause. That is also going to be quite a long meeting, since there are more than 450 clauses to study. It was also scheduled to be done on the 29th, well after the last meeting, so that we can have the time to come to grips with these matters.
With a November 20 deadline for committees to come back to us with amendments, we will need time to look at the ones the various committees send. We do not see doing it the next day as reasonable.
We could spend half an hour on the matter. But the subcommittee would be in a position to see the implications on the rest of our work calendar and also on our ability to analyze and examine quite a massive bill in a proper way and in an appropriate time.