All right.
You know, it's interesting because there's a process. People get to have their say. Mr. Berthold used seven seconds of his five minutes, so it made his point. Mr. Therrien has made his point.
Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe, the committee welcomes any additional comments that you would like to share, as would be the case for Madam Gill and Mr. Simard. You can send them to the clerk, and the clerk will have them shared with all members to consider as we do draft a report back.
I am not going to get into a debate on this because the point is, as per the legislation, for PROC committee members to hear objections that MPs are raising. Then we report them back to the commission. Rest assured that we will take that very seriously.
The insights you have all provided—especially because these are your backyards—are really important to somebody like me because I'm not from that area.
We appreciate everything you shared with us today. If you have further comments to make, please share those with the clerk, who will send them to all the members of the committee.
On that, I wish everyone a good day.
PROC committee members, I am going to say that because we have the second panel starting shortly and there are just some scheduling changes, we're now going to have the conversation that we were to have at the end of second hour. We can then pause it and continue it after the second panel. This is just to maximize our time.
To set the stage for this conversation, if I may, I would like to say that, at the end of last meeting, I was asked to work with the clerk to put forward a draft plan so that people could have a better understanding of what is going to take place.
We were in the process of making that plan—I have shared a draft with you, and stuff can move around as we want because members are masters of their domain—but then a letter was sent to me, as the chair, to say that we want additional time. I do want to say that not only was the letter shared with all of you but a motion was also put on notice, and there is a desire to see that conversation advance. Therefore, this would be the time for us to have a sense of where members are at with regard to how we can get all of our work done because I actually do believe that we can.
With that, I am going to.... Can I just go to Mr. Fergus first because he had his hand up first, and then I'll come to Mr. Cooper right after? Is that okay? I do believe we can find a way forward.
Mr. Fergus.