Mr. Chair, I would suggest, with all due respect, that I have read or written a couple hundred motions at committee. Many of them, in fact, most of them, do stipulate a minimum number of meetings. It is not the work of the subcommittee to put that in. Writers of motions do it every day, in all 25 or 26 standing committees of the House of Commons. It is normal procedure to put in a number of meetings.
It's the work of the subcommittee on agenda and procedure to deal with that and honour the work of the committee members, who have tried to do their best, and come up with a schedule and get back to us. If they can't schedule five meetings, and they come back to the committee saying that they can only fit in three because there is other important work, we will listen to that.
We are willing, on the reasonable government side, to say we will let that amendment pass, but we are hoping the official opposition will be reasonable in their suggestions following that understanding on the points we have been making over the last number of meetings.