Thank you.
I'd like to take this time to thank Mr. Nixon and his team for coming in to talk to us today and to hear the update. I'm sure we'll all be watching this next year when the Auditor General comes back to let us know about the progress.
Thank you once again for taking time out of your schedules to come and meet with us today.
Before we close, I want to say that before we met with the witnesses Mr. Martin had talked about passing the travel itinerary. I do want some clarification. Perhaps you would like to have a look at the dates in terms of where we're at, just before we close.
You have the dates in front of you. Perhaps you would like to turn to the page on the following cities and times.
As you can appreciate, we're in Ottawa from September 18 to October 6, when we return, so that doesn't take a whole lot to understand. We're going to be having the meetings in Ottawa.
In terms of eastern Canada, I have talked to our whip's office. He is obviously working with the opposition whips. He has no issue with our travelling on the 9th to the 12th, which is not a break week. I believe it's the week before the break week. There's not an issue there as long as agreements can reached with the opposition whips. There would probably be six of us--I would think three from the government, three from the opposition--as we move out to talk to people, as long as there's an agreement that this is not an issue, for travel. The 9th to the 12th is not an issue with our whip's office at this point in time.
I understand there may be some concerns with the break week of November 13 to 15. If it is the will of the committee, once again we will need to go back and talk to our respective whips' offices if we were to travel on a non-break week. Certainly, people are busy enough as it is on their own break weeks. Maybe we should be looking at trying to put that back to a time when it would be acceptable to all parties in terms of the ability to travel out west.
I throw that to the will of the committee in terms of where we're at.
Mr. Brown.