Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I wonder if the committee has a preference as to whether or not we invite the minister to appear in person.
In the last Parliament, many of us served, prior to the vaccination campaign, in the context of a hybrid Parliament and missed the opportunity to be able to pose questions to ministers in person. We have a hybrid Parliament available again for when we need it, but the context is clearly different, as we can see just by today's in-person attendance at the meeting.
For my part, anyway, I would like to suggest that the committee express a preference that the minister appear in person by amending paragraph (d) to add, after the word “appear”, the words “in person”, so that it would read, “That the committee invite the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to appear in person for two hours, in addition to the length of her opening remarks on Thursday, December 9th”.