Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm not sure at which stage we are at. I proposed a motion. Mr. Hardie proposed an amendment, so we're discussing his amendment.
In response to Mr. Hardie, I note we have a very full agenda already between now and June, and it's even full after the summer recess. We propose one meeting to get the two parties in the same room at the same time, because we continuously play this back-and-forth of he said this, they said that, they said this and they said that.
To make the best use of our committee's valuable time, I believe it's very important that we have both parties in the same room so we can reduce the amount of back-and-forth that we've continuously seen on this issue for a number of years now. Even your party members have seen that. Mr. Badawey is well aware of what's taken place here. I'd be more than happy to have him as one of your committee members during this study. I think he could brief all of your party members quite quickly on what's taken place.
I'll move a subamendment to Mr. Hardie's amendment. We've proposed one meeting; you've proposed three. I propose a subamendment to your amendment that we compromise at two meetings, but we have DFO officials and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission appear concurrently.