Well, I won't repeat everything I've said, just that I think this is an important issue. There is concern that if you have an arm's-length government agency on EI, there could be an impact on workers. There may be some good points. We need to hear that both from people in the department and from people outside. That might include labour groups, that might include economists, that might include any number of people who would have a point of view on this.
I think we need to have a look at this arm's-length agency on employment insurance, and I think this is the committee to do it.
I do, though, want to add that I didn't put a date on this, and the reason is that Tony Martin, who is the NDP member on this committee, has been very insistent, with Liberals and the Bloc, on getting to a study on poverty. So I don't want to discuss adding meetings until Tony has a chance to be here or else at a subcommittee meeting to discuss this.
I think sooner rather than later we have to have an evaluation of this arm's-length agency. I'm not suggesting we necessarily have to go through all this today. Our next meeting after the break will be on Mr. Godin's bill on EI, and if we move through that with any kind of haste that might be an appropriate place. If Tony Martin was given notice, he might want to be at that meeting as well.