Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm new to the committee. It's my first time here.
When I was vice-chair of the international trade committee, we often had multiple studies going on at the same time. We always gave the chair the discretion to fit things in where it made sense. You might not have any witnesses for the study you're currently working on.
It would seem to me the Liberals are saying that if you don't have witnesses, we will only do Canada Post, and then the committee doesn't meet. That doesn't make sense.
That was a Liberal-chaired committee. We had no problem saying that we trusted the chair to fit in witnesses to deal with multiple priorities.
All studies are a priority. The absolute priority is this Canada Post study. That should be the priority, and the chair should be instructed that it's the priority. The chair should try to get the witnesses on the Canada Post study as a priority. If that does not happen, for a variety of reasons, this committee should not adjourn and not work. The committee should move to something else.
We should all have faith that this will be done properly and fairly, as I did with the vice-chair on the trade committee. We would always agree that the Liberal chair would try to fit everything in where it makes sense. That's how the committee operated very smoothly for a number of years.
That's my advice to this committee. You can say that Canada Post is the priority, and the chair should absolutely make sure that's the first thing on the agenda. If there are witnesses unable to attend or if we can't fill that spot, then we move to another study. That seems to make logical sense to me.