I'm somewhat concerned that the message we received from the governor was that he's unavailable. I'm tempted to request, and to amend this motion to request, that the governor appear in front of this committee, because, one, when we ask an individual like the Governor of the Bank of Canada to appear as a witness for a study, I think we would expect that an individual who holds the office that the governor holds would respect the request of parliamentarians.
I wonder how my colleagues feel about this. This is an important issue, and the governor goes into blackout periods very frequently before all interest rate announcements. We had asked him to appear for three hours. Saying you're not available and then not giving any other dates is...I was quite disappointed there.
Since we don't have him scheduled, I'll move to amend that we invite the governor to appear along with [Technical difficulty—Editor]