Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I guess I'm glad we're not running a private business here. We would all be bankrupt pretty soon. One of the things you learn when you're managing projects is that you plan the work and you work the plan. We're not very good at planning the work. We entertain all these other things.
I'm hopeful...and I imagine what will end up happening is that this will go to the subcommittee, but.... I would prefer us to tighten it down a little bit to the coast guard. I'm probably not going to win that one anyway, so I'm not prepared to debate it much longer. I've already lost an hour of my life that we could have devoted to the crab report, as Mr. Cuzner and Mr. MacAulay have said.
I guess I'm just going to not support this on principle...that we keep adding these motions in, and I'm hopeful that if it does pass and go to committee, we'll have the respect of the committee, until we're at least finishing the crab report, that we don't entertain any more work on behalf of committee.
I do appreciate what Rodger is saying: we have a lot of people asking us to do work, and potentially we will have the Fisheries Act too, and that will just throw the cat amongst the pigeons at that point in time.
I hope we'll have the respect of committee that there will be no more motions.