Listen, I think we can address both concerns. The concern that we get down to business is a legitimate one, but so is Peter's concern that we line up our work schedule with the House's plans and give all members the chance to consider the logistics of this proposal. I think we can achieve all of that.
What I would suggest is that we simply get started with the Deputy Prime Minister and departmental officials and the Governor of the Bank of Canada—those should be our next two separate meetings—and that we task the subcommittee to work out all of the details on the plan for the pre-budget consultation and come back to our next meeting with a consensus. That way we can dot all our i's and cross all our t's without any delay, because we'll use the interim period to hear from the finance minister and the Governor of the Bank of Canada. That gives us the chance to work through this and get it right without having any delay. That's my first point.
My second point is that we need the finance minister to be here for three hours. We need the Governor of the Bank of Canada to be before the committee for a separate three hours. There's been so little committee scrutiny of governmental decisions because of the way that the last five or six weeks have unfolded. We need an extra-long testimony so that we can address the minister and the Governor of the Bank of Canada on the enormous public policy developments that have been happening without any scrutiny.