Thank you, Mr. Dewar.
I'll go on the record here as to a number of problems that I see in this motion. One of them is that I would love to see Mr. Obhrai's motion before this one, because as a committee chair I understand--and I think we all understand--that the minister must appear here before the end of May, if you want him.
A lot of the time in government, if the opposition doesn't ask for a minister, he won't come. If he doesn't get the request, he's not coming. I think it's a great opportunity to at least have the minister appear here on the estimates; your motion could be dealt with some time after that. The point is that I think we're going to be asking for a minister to come twice, and we may end up not seeing him at all.