The argument now is about whether or not it's reasonable to ask the minister to appear within four days to address the committee. In listening to this, I hark back to what Mr. Barlow threw out to me with regard to discussing the procurement of documents issue.
He said, “Dr. Powlowski, as a doctor, wouldn't you first of all take the time to review everything that's happened in the past before you deal with this patient before you?” I like that he asked that question, because I have the answer to it. The answer is that as an emergency room physician, no, that's not what you do. When you have an emergency right before you, you don't spend all your time on the computer looking at the records for the past five years while the person dies in front of you.
As an emergency room doctor, you have to address the problems as they come up. This is really fundamental. The same is true for health care and the ministries of health and hospitals all across this country. They are busy. They're busy dealing with the second wave. I know the opposition doesn't think that this is the case and thinks that the ministry of health has all of these people who are sitting around drinking coffee all day, and of course they can walk and chew gum at the same time and they can produce these documents.
But I think you have to realize—and yes, there are politics going on there—that you are getting people who are really busy trying to fight this pandemic and making them do something else, making them dance to your tune. You may be telling us, “Oh yeah, they can do it”, but I would suggest—