I am seeing all nods on that, so that is how we will proceed. I will remind the committee as well that on Thursday we're meeting with other witnesses. Mr. Owen had brought up the issue that there may be a need to hear other witnesses, so perhaps we can even discuss that if they need to attend and if we need to have other witnesses, we could combine them at that meeting.
For now the decision is to request a written submission from the Liberal Party, and if we need to meet with them, we'll certainly do that. Let's proceed, then, if we can, to the main business of the day.
First of all, let me thank all of you for coming out this morning. It's a pleasure to see some of you again. The rest are new to me, but I thank you very much for coming out and taking your time to help fill the committee in on some of the questions we have with respect to fixed election dates.
We'll start off with a five-minute introduction, if that's what you need. If you don't, we'll just move around and then we'll open it for questions.
We'll start the round with Mr. Donison.
Thank you.