That is fascinating. I didn't realize there was such a constrained legislative calender, if you will. That is interesting. Perhaps it gives me a quick opportunity to talk about our parliamentary calendar very briefly, Mr. Chair, that is, how we could better coordinate our legislative calendar.
We look at this calender year, for example. In February, we sat the entire month without a constituency week. Like most parliamentarians, that meant that my weekends were spent trying to catch up on meetings with constituents, which wasn't always possible. Had we been able to readjust that so there was a constituency week, perhaps the Family Day week, it would have allowed us to catch up while keeping the same number of sitting days in the year.
The other example I like to use is November 11. Certainly as federal MPs, we have one of our busiest times then, especially in rural ridings. I have 13 Legions. I believe I have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 16 or 17 Remembrance Day services, most of which take place the week prior to Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day this year falls on a weekend, but our constituency week falls the week after Remembrance Day, when all the Remembrance Day services have been completed.
I think that's an unfortunate effect of the scheduling of the weeks that we sit, and I think it would be worthwhile perhaps in the future to ensure that the constituency week is the week before Remembrance Day, to allow members, especially those who do have large ridings with many jurisdictions, to attend as many service as possible within—