—and proposed an agenda going forward. Suzie is going to distribute that. We'll go through the calendar and where I think we are.
We decided as a steering committee to add an extra day to the housing study, and down the road a piece, provide some drafting instructions to the analysts. So on February 8, this Wednesday, we will continue our housing study of the last week or so. We have five or six witnesses lined up for that at the moment.
Monday, February 13—on the housing study again—is the only day the president and CEO of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is available. We would invite him to the first hour of that session. The second hour is a little up in the air. The steering committee decided to invite the minister and officials for either February 13 or 15, if the minister could be available either one of those days. If the minister is not available or can't make himself available, we would have officials on the second hour of February 13, along with the parliamentary secretary.
If that's the way it occurs, on February 15—or we would have the officials on February 13—there is a view, given that the Advisory Council on Economic Growth tabled a fairly comprehensive report today, which I haven't seen yet, that we should hold hearings as a committee. There's a motion by Mr. Albas on the record that we should have hearings on the various reports that the Advisory Council on Economic Growth proposes or tables. We would start that hearing on February 15 with the Advisory Council on Economic Growth and a couple of their advisory committee people, if we could—and Mr. Barton if possible. He's the chair of that advisory committee. But if not, we would go with two or three council members.
On February 22, in the first hour, we would have Mr. Bryan May here on his private member's bill. We think, as well, during that time that we'd have departmental officials, along with Mr. May, go to clause-by-clause consideration. It is a Wednesday, which is a problem with votes. Hopefully, we'd be able to squeeze in the housing market drafting instructions for the analysts.
That is as far as we went, other than to....
I should mention, as well, that there is a motion on the books for us to complete a study on the regional development agencies, a report of what they said, etc., in early February. I think there's a feeling that we may have to accept what is in the report already. We talked at the subcommittee about the possibility of having some witnesses come in who have had experience in trying to deal with the regional development agencies, but we may be getting into the business of another department and another committee.
I agreed that I'll check that out to see what we can do in that area. The analysts can't really prepare a report unless we have a little more on what may be conflicting evidence on how they operate. So that's at a standstill, just to mention that point.
The last point I'd make from the subcommittee meeting is that members need to think about the witnesses that we could pull into the committee if we are to hold further hearings on the proposals by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth's, what they think of them—the pros, cons, or whatever—and report back to Parliament.
I think that's basically it. Unless somebody who was at the subcommittee has anything else to add, we'll go to questions and your thoughts on the agenda.
Mr. Albas.