I do take that point, because I don't want to be in a situation where, for example, the executive director of the Liberal Party is the only one who can appear on Tuesday, and if the Chief Electoral Officer is available to appear on Tuesday as well, it's “we won't hear from you”. We'll be at a point.... If it's the will of the committee to stick to this, my preference would be to give the clerk some flexibility in terms of who we can call to fill up these meetings and have more substantive meetings. I can understand the rationale of wanting the Chief Electoral Officer in the middle, as he's not exactly at the end of the list of witnesses, but he will be back on the estimates, I imagine, and I believe there's another proposed motion as well.
That would be my preference: to give the clerk some flexibility to fill up these two meetings. If it is the will of the committee to stick to the letter of.... There may not even be a meeting if we can't get those witnesses.
Go ahead, Madame Normandin.