Thank you, Chair.
My point is that there wasn't an agreement, so I'm not understanding why the Liberals are telling us that we're prolonging this when there wasn't an agreement. We had agreed to six meetings. That is what is in the minutes.
It's unfortunate. What is the big push? What is the big push of nine days? I don't understand and it's unfortunate.
It's very frustrating, Mr. Chair, because there is this—what's the word I'm looking for?—brush painting that we're holding this up, which is not the case. From what I understand, as I had said, this kind of stuff should be discussed in planning meetings.
To the witnesses, I'm so sorry that this is happening and that the Liberals and the NDP don't want to do this planning outside of these meetings and are actually eating up witness time.
I just don't see the justification in the argument to move this up, especially when we have two riding weeks coming up here with major holidays between those riding weeks. We have to be respectful of our witnesses when it comes to rescheduling them as well. I feel that moving this original motion—