No, we're not agreed on that, because the problem we have here is that if we're going to have witnesses on this matter, as Mr. Guimond said, we can't call them after a steering committee meeting authorizes their appearance; we have to be getting in contact with them the next day. The idea that we're going to go into a steering committee and then decide whether there will be additional witnesses and then call them up and have them shipped in here is insane.
Let's just agree.... Mr. Chair, there is a motion that has been adopted by this committee calling for a study. You were authorized to go out and get witnesses for that study. That's the reality of the matter.
I have it right here:
That the committee on procedure and House affairs study the Elections Canada decision to allow veiled individuals to vote. This study be completed by Friday, September 14, 2007.
Yesterday we agreed that the witness list would be accumulated by submission from members of this committee--