Yes, that would be my pleasure.
We've had a number of occasions on which ministers have appeared before the committee. Quite often when they appear, there's been a lot of confusion about where the copies are of their presentation. I think it was the last time they were here—it was on either Bill C-50 or Bill C-56—that we were told that they were waiting for their comments to come, and it took quite a while.
When ministers come to defend their estimates at committee, one of the most important functions of this committee occurs, which is to ask questions. Human Resources is a big department. I can't speak on behalf of Labour, but Human Resources is one of the largest departments in the government. There are a lot of questions that come out of these estimates. I think it's very important for the ministers, as well as for the committee, that we have as much time as possible to have questions and that we have a sense of what they're going to say before they come here to say it. It's very difficult to ask questions when we don't know the content of the remarks they'll make in opening them up.
This is simply a motion that puts something in place to try to assist the ministers and make their lives easier.