To start with, on the referral—I mean I have nothing against our friends at PROC—I think this committee was going to study the estimates. It seems almost counterproductive to pass it off to them. Concerning the dates, as I brought up a couple of days ago with the minister—it wasn't Mr. Pagan, but the other person with him—our concerns are a cut in the time to study the estimates.
Right now we have three months to call ministers and study the estimates. If we go to May 1, that gives us 30 days. We're not sitting one week in May so it only gives us, effectively, 15 days to interrogate ministers, for lack of a better word—I mean bring ministers in, invite them. They are not always available, so that cuts down the time. As I mentioned before, we lose out on our ability to decide which two ministries or departments we're going to call for our committee of the whole, as well. To me, reducing the amount of time defeats the whole purpose of why we're here, which is to oversee spending, taxation, etc. Anything that reduces the amount of time is counterintuitive to what we're trying to do.