Thank you, Chair. Thank you so much for accommodating the dialogue. It's nice to have some level of trust and to see it honoured.
There's just one little bit, if I might, Chair, on the time, because one can deny witnesses either directly or by just running out of time.
If you wouldn't mind just acknowledging that we're not necessarily bound by just Tuesdays and Thursdays in order to meet your timeframe, but also our desire for witnesses, the Liberals' desire and yours.... In order to accommodate and fulfill the pledge that I think you're making tonight—at least that's the way I'm interpreting it—then I'd just like some assurance that the government is not going to stand on Tuesday and Thursday and go make it fit, that there will be a recognition that if this committee wants to exercise its right to hold meetings every day or at night, whatever it takes....
I'm not saying that's what we have to do, but I just want to make sure that I'm not going to hear, “Sorry, we only meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, and for anything other than that, we're into another problem.” So if I could hear some indication, not necessarily that we'll be meeting every day, but that conversely there won't be a lock-in to Tuesday and Thursday for two hours each and that's it....