I'm sure he will take it.
To get back to the issue at hand, the subamendment of Mr. Gerretsen provides us with a framework that will not occupy the committee at enormous length and therefore prevent us from looking at, in a very serious way, the issue of pre-budget consultation. It is therefore completely in line with the spirit of Standing Order 83.1, which—as I have mentioned a number of times today—we need to recognize and follow.
We would have meetings on these documents. We would be allowed to question—and I would have questions, serious ones and not ones that would try to ignore the main issue or that would be partisan, but ones that would be very straightforward to public servants and to the law clerk. I would be very interested to hear what they have to say and put on record.
Why is the opposition trying to prevent those folks from coming to the committee and speaking to committee members? Is it because—and I'm just speculating here, Mr. Chair, and not making any accusations, which I would never do—