You're very generous and you're very kind, and I'll leave that up to Mr. McCauley when we get into the second round.
Colleagues, I'll make just one last comment before I ask Paul to suspend, and then we'll get the other witnesses lined up for the second hour.
I mentioned this earlier to Mr. Drouin, I mentioned it to Mr. McCauley I believe yesterday, and I'll say it now publicly to you, Matthew, and to Madam Vignola. As long as we have witnesses and things we need to study, that's great. I'm comfortable with having as many meetings as are required. I did say to both Mr. McCauley and Mr. Drouin that I've never been a fan of having meetings just for the sake of having meetings.
I would like to make sure that the witnesses we have—and this is reflected in the work plan—are not redundant, have not already provided to a different committee the same same testimony that we would be hearing. I'm not trying to short-circuit this committee at all. I'm just saying that when we feel collectively that we have reached the end of the road in terms of receiving testimony, I hope we'll all come to some agreement, and then we can inform our whips that our time is up.
Just keep that in mind, colleagues. We may find as we go through the next meeting or two that new issues surface and that we do want to continue to study a little longer. We can certainly do that. It is up to the committee.
Mr. Clerk, I can see that your hand is raised.