I agree with my colleague about sooner rather than later. That goes to the same comment I was going to make about Mr. Hanley's motion.
I think it is important that we have ministers here, although I believe we're going to get the same gobbledygook we received previously. They don't know their file. They don't have the data, so I'm not quite sure what benefit we're going to get out of having them here, other than holding them accountable. We'll probably walk out more frustrated than we were when we walked in.
Mr. Chair, through you, I want to offer to my colleagues across the way that waiting until February 19 is too long. I think we would like to get on this. While it might have been Mr. Hanley's motion, it was Conservatives who pushed to get this study going sooner rather than later. I would ask the committee to consider early January dates, if not additional times within the next two weeks when we might be able to meet with the minister, so we can do the good work we're doing and get on to other projects.
Thanks.