I think we're agreed.
Mr. Chair, if I might have the floor, I would come back to a point I made earlier, which is that it is our first day. We're having preliminary conversations. Whether it's about a deadline for amendments or a deadline for the passage of the bill, or the very good point that Mr. Beech has raised about it being absolutely impossible for the minister to appear in person but nevertheless being able to appear through the hybrid format, these are all things that we can discuss as they come up.
I don't think the onus is on the committee today to answer all of the potential possibilities that may come up. We're obviously trying to study a bill as quickly as we can. Everybody has recognized that there is some pressure, even if we may disagree on the reasons for that pressure, to get the legislation passed quickly.
We're on our first day. There are a lot of variables that have yet to be defined. For the moment, expressing a preference that the minister come in person is the beginning of that conversation. It sounds to me like we'll be meeting frequently over the course of this week and would have the opportunity to reconsider this decision in the event that the minister were completely unable to appear here in person.