Okay.
Following Mr. Christopherson's observations about how things work in the Senate, I think his statement on the Senate ought to be set aside as more aspirational. I know it's the longstanding position of the New Democrats, but it's of course not the way the law works here. Failing some kind of unanimous consent in the Senate to simply pass the bill in all its stages at one sitting, I actually don't think you can rush things through the Senate with the kind of alacrity that Mr. Christopherson is suggesting. This makes me think that if we're heading in the direction of saying we need to have a larger number of witnesses, and we want to accommodate them, I think the better direction would be not to try to have special sittings in January, but rather to have extra sittings in November, right now, either in the evenings or on days we don't normally sit, something of that sort.
I think that's the best way of accommodating these things, so we can still meet that kind of deadline. It's only a suggestion I'm throwing out here. Of course, that wasn't meant for you, Mr. Mayrand. It was meant for our colleagues here. But I wanted to use your comments as a jumping-off point, so thank you very much for that.