Right. I'm happy to move the appropriate amendment once we've dispensed with the amendment that is currently on the floor, but I don't think I can amend my amendment.
I guess I'd just ask one very quick thing.
I appreciate your intervention with respect to the fairness that has been offered to the departments. It's included in the letter. It talks about the March 6 motion the committee passed, and then the letter that was sent two days later to all the committees. It was at that time that members of the committee raised the question of privilege, and the chair suggested, if memory serves me, that more correspondence be sent. The correspondence was sent.
Once is the correct number of times we need to ask to get what the departments are legally obligated to provide to us. They've had multiple opportunities and ample time. They've demonstrated, as evidenced in multiple letters, an unwillingness or a refusal to comply.
We are where we are not for a lack of opportunity being given by this committee, and that's evidenced in the report prepared by the analysts.
Chair, we're past 6:30 p.m. I'd like to know how much time we have left. On this important issue, I think we're able to dispense with it today, because we'll be weeks further down the road before we have an opportunity to deal with this again. I wouldn't want to see us lose resources before we resolve it.