Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I would love to hear from the minister too. I welcome the opportunity. I have a lot of problems with what the minister has done here; there is no doubt about that. We have a number of questions regarding the legislation. We want to see a lot of amendments brought to the legislation.
My concern is strictly about process. We could have asked the minister to come on Tuesday. There was no agreement among the three political parties that the minister should even be appearing here today or about whether there might have been an alternative date. We were led to believe, or at least one party was led to believe, that we would be canvassing outside of Ottawa. We hear in the news reports that this is not going to be taking place.