Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just for any of those listening, on occasion—here's another translation issue, actually—what will happen at these committees is that we'll get feedback in the earpieces. You're actually hearing people talk at the same time. It's sort of like an echo. This is an ongoing problem that we've had. I know that the chair and the clerk have gone back to House administration on this, but it is an ongoing issue. Sometimes it's not a matter of actual translation. It's a matter of just hearing, because the volume in the room isn't very high and you actually need to have the earpiece in order to be able to hear what's being said. Some of it does appear to depend on what room we're in and on the set-up of the translators. It is an ongoing problem. We have commented on it many times, and for some reason we seem to be having the issue here again today. I don't know if this is the room. They also had to turn off a monitor due to sound issues that we've had in this room before. This is an ongoing issue.
To get back to what I was discussing in relation to the business of committee and ministers coming to committee, even when we look back, I think it was a year ago that the ministers were to come on estimates. It was past the date when they were to come. They were pushed off. There are certain deadlines that this committee has to follow and that all committees have to follow. The ministers actually were coming well into the new year, which does make it more difficult. When we're looking at the issues that the ministers have to come here to discuss, it's really important. We want to be questioning ministers on their entire portfolio, especially since sometimes we'll hear ministers make comments and we're not sure where they're coming from. One of the ministers was—