I'm told there has been no agreement with all the parties yet as to when the supplementary estimates will be passed. I would like to have the minister come here at the earliest possible opportunity. We would be prepared to alter our schedule to have her here before they pass and I'm sure others would as well.
I think we should perhaps pass a motion that we'd like to have the minister here as soon as possible to defend the supplementary estimates. I'll come back and maybe make that a motion.
To the other piece, for a number of reasons this committee hasn't sat since last June. That's an extraordinarily long time to go without a committee meeting. The momentum on the poverty study I thought was very good. I just want to make sure we don't take a lot of time getting back up and running. I was wondering, if it is possible, if the committee could be briefed by staff on Tuesday as to where they think we are. If that's to wait until next Tuesday, I'll defer to your judgment on that. I just want to make sure people realize this is an important piece of work. We don't have to reinvent the wheel on this. I'm hoping we can pick up the study largely where we left off in the last Parliament.