I would thank Phil for offering such an excellent rebuttal to his own argument, but I think “rebuttal” is not quite the word, because it implies that there's a difference in opinion or that there's some kind of antagonism, when there simply isn't.
The reason I said “not limited to” is exactly because it's hard to come up with a comprehensive list. I think today was a good example.
When you start getting experts in, if we're not listening to just ourselves at this table, which I would say we have too often done, new things come up and we learn things, and then we find out that not all of our preconceptions are true or that there are other things that we left out in our analysis. It's very deliberately constructed to allow us some flexibility as new issues come up or to be able to pursue existing issues as they are articulated.
To Ms. Dzerowicz's points, I hear you, and that's why it's not a limited witness list. We should think about who else we want to invite. However, notwithstanding Ms. Bendayan's point about some of these dates, the idea was to have enough dates that we have room for extra witnesses and to get input from the committee on who those witnesses should be.
I will note that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities is one of the named witnesses. That's exactly because I recognize that municipalities have an important role to play and that sometimes barriers to being able to create more supply happen at the municipal level. I think that is also Phil's point.
What I want to say is that I think, even as it's written, there is room for all these things.
Given that we're up against some time constraints, if the committee knows it wants to proceed with the study, my suggestion would be to pass it today, because that empowers our clerk to be able to start going after some of the witnesses and scheduling them. If we then want to formally amend the study motion to include some of these things or if we find that we're able to work it out at the operational level, it's all the same to me, but I would say let's pass it today. That empowers our clerk to be able to get our work together for us and bring people together.
I certainly hope that this won't be the last time we discuss how to proceed with this study, who we should hear from and what the important issues are.