Pierre, maybe that's directed at me and what I said. From my experience here and from looking at our agenda, I think Mr. Liepert said it correctly, that the key document of the government is the budget, and the government is going to want that to be adopted. Whether it's amended or whatever, that's to be seen. One of our problems in looking at our agenda from now until whenever we adjourn in June is that we only have so much time as a committee. People are asking for or suggesting that there be quite a number of witnesses. I expect that's true.
From my own point of view, and coming back to Mr. Liepert's point, if you can do a bit of a prestudy you would get some of the work done prior to the bill's hitting here. I doubt if the minister would come until the bill passes the House, but you could have departmental officials appear. While that would take take a considerable amount of time given the number of clauses in that bill and the various areas those officials are responsible for, you would get some of the work done before the bill gets to committee. That's all we're suggesting, but it's up to the committee at the end of the day on how we proceed. We're going to have to do that work at some point in time.
Mr. Albas, then Mr. Fergus and Mr. Dusseault.