Mr. Chairman, I think we have a mutual misunderstanding here, or at least I hope so. You speak very quickly. Sometimes the interpretation is still ongoing after you are finished. You give the impression that everyone has understood, but that's not always the case for me. I'm not mad at you, but these decisions seem to have been taken quickly.
Unions sometimes have common positions which they present as one. They usually don't use a spokesperson, but they have done so on occasion in the past. You were wondering whether it was possible from a logistics point of view to hear from them all. There are four groups. This morning, we had seven witnesses. They each had a turn to speak and no complications arose. It would be the same thing. I think it would be wrong to invite the four unions, but to only allow one of them to speak. It's not the right thing to do. We must proceed the way we did this morning, that is, give each of these groups between 7 and 10 minutes to make a presentation and answer questions.
Unless I'm mistaken, on Thursday we are supposed to hear from the Canada Labour Congress, the FTQ, the CSN, the CEQ and the CSD. Have any of these groups confirmed they will be here? I believe that the people from Cap Breton were here this morning. So they will not be with us on Thursday. That's a total of five groups. As for the groups representing the unemployed, we face the same issue. We cannot only invite MASSE. Its position is not the same as that of the Conseil national des chômeurs. In my opinion, we have to invite the four unions and the two groups representing the unemployed to get the full spectrum of their opinions. We should also organize our meeting as we did this morning, that is, to have it last two hours. We could hear from them together or separately, beginning with the groups representing the unemployed and ending with the unions. If we did it that way, they would not all get the same period of time, but they are all defending the same cause. Perhaps they could all appear at the same time during a two and a half-hour meeting.