I'll start by thanking the clerk for arranging to have name tags here so that we know who we are. That's great.
Colleagues from all parties, I appreciate that many of us have had many conversations since the last meeting so that we can move forward productively on the committee. It doesn't necessarily matter what order we go in. Maybe we'll start with the human resources study. In the spirit of co-operation, we'll move to finish that particular motion with the understanding that we will then move to the children's health study motion.
Is that fair?
This is a bit tough for me, because I really don't believe in the principle of apportioning witnesses. I think I made that clear enough last time around, but we have had some conversations. I don't want this to be a precedent. Within that motion, we're prepared to amend it to say—wherever we put it in the motion; I can't remember exactly where it was—that witnesses be allocated one-third to the Liberal Party, one-third to the Conservative Party, one-sixth to the NDP and one-sixth to the Bloc Québécois.