On a separate issue, Mr. Chair, we have gone through this a number of times, and yet I think today we'll be seized yet again with an agenda that came upon us, or at least came upon me, by surprise yesterday afternoon.
I'm going to ask the clerk about this. When I saw the notice yesterday...in the second hour today we are to have the Church Council on Justice and Corrections appearing before us. I wonder if you could tell me how it is that they came to appear before us later this afternoon, if they are here to talk about the study on the budget freezes, and just explain to me how it's possible that we continuously have last-minute agenda items without the committee ever being made aware of it. Who actually sets the agenda for the committee, and why is it the members can never be made aware in advance?
I don't like preparing for a committee 10 minutes or 15 minutes before it happens. I wonder if the clerk could explain to me how it is that every time I come to this meeting there is a surprise witness.