Mr. Chair, I wanted to intervene—I was waiting until we had passed the steering committee report—on the agenda for today. In terms of sequencing, I have a request that we change the order to have departmental officials first, if possible. The reason for this is that there was to be another guest whose plane is late and who would want to join with the cohort of individuals of Mr. Applebaum and Mr. Parsons. It's actually the Minister of Fisheries from Newfoundland who's wanting to join them. In light of the fact that his plane has been delayed, I'm asking whether we could change the order of witnesses.
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