Thank you.
I don't believe the end is nigh for this committee. I believe we are trying to carry on some work that has to be done. We need to get to it. Certainly a few issues have been discussed because they have drawn a lot of media attention, and I think it is incumbent on us to look at it and then move on.
As I have already expressed to Mr. Holland, I am very uncomfortable with this motion in that I don't think it is the purview of this committee to speak to Mr. O'Brien. I am not interested in the municipal fights in Ottawa any more than I'm interested in our committee studying the Elton John “ticketgate” in Sudbury. These are municipal matters.
I do believe there is a question for Mr. Baird that I would like to...and as a result of our discussion, I think it would only be fair to hear from him. What I'm uncomfortable with in the motion, however, is that we're going to do this before the break. We've set a number of motions and we've voted on them. We get a plan here and then we're always throwing something else to the top of the list.
I don't have a problem with the motion if we're just going to be speaking with Mr. Baird, but I'm not ready to push it ahead. We only have two other meetings, three meetings maximum, before the break, and we already have a schedule.
So if they want to make an amendment to make it after the break, I don't have a particular problem with hearing from Mr. Baird.