I'm studious. Sister Frances Margaret never said that in grade school, I'll tell you, which is why I have such big ears--they were pulled all time.
I support the need to come back with something on the passport issue. I'm questioning whether we should open it up to witnesses at this point, because I'm not sure who we would ask. We didn't get a lot of answers from Monsieur Cossette. We certainly got a good promotional package, but it didn't answer our questions.
I feel our researchers should take the next step for us. We should empower them to ask. We're going to bring specific questions from each region that we need to have answered. For example, I asked Mr. Cossette about the decision to cut off Service Ontario as a passport service provider. I've now found out that not one community from North Bay to Kenora on Highway 11 has a passport service, yet we were told we had an unprecedented level of passport service. This is a decision they made two weeks ago that is now having a major impact.
I don't know who to bring forward as witnesses on that, but I would like our researchers to ask Passport Canada what their plan is to address this shortfall. I'm sure other regions have similar questions, depending on their jurisdiction.
If we can have those questions asked and then come back and look at them in a preparatory report, we might then decide if there are witnesses we would like to bring forward. But I'm not sure what putting a number of meetings on this will actually give us.