Madam Chair, there were a number of things on the record that, as chair of another committee, I just want to clear up. I let one of them go by, but they continued.
A comment was made regarding your leadership. Supplementary estimates are deemed to be reported back to the House after a time, because for those people who want to check the estimates to see if there's an issue, and if they check them and there isn't an issue, then they're deemed reported back. I just want to be clear on that: there was no issue on your leadership. If anything, it's the leadership of those who would be interested in the supplementary estimates.
The second thing is that there are a number of committees I'm on where we have one meeting on something that a member or members have an interest in or a large concern--in this case regarding nanotechnology--where they'd like to see if there is evidence that would surface in order to justify a broad study. That again is very common.
Lastly, the other item that's disturbing is that, as Mr. Brown said, if the whole slate is filled up by other parties.... Committees are a place where everybody is supposed to work together. If there is one issue that one party wants to look at, to have that shelved for another issue lacks fairness at best.