Hopefully we can continue this meeting in an air of cooperation.
The chair is aware that we are on three different topics here. We've been given orders by the House of Commons to hear these three different topics. We all know what they are: temporary and undocumented workers, immigration consultants, and Iraqi refugees.
During the course of our travels the chair has been lenient in allowing some leeway with regard to questions on Bill C-50. That's when there was an air of cooperation between all members to proceed in that way. That air of cooperation is apparently gone, so I'm going to be fairly strict in where we go with questions on Bill C-50.
At the same time, the chair has already stated that we don't mind being in the periphery of that. We don't want to see Bill C-50 dominate the debate and get us off the topics we want to discuss, that we have been ordered by the House of Commons to proceed with. We have recommendations that'll be made to the House of Commons on these items.
We will be having a hearing on Bill C-50, and all members will be given the opportunity to call witnesses and hear testimony from these witnesses on Bill C-50. Nobody is trying to shut down Bill C-50; it's just that we've been given an order by the House of Commons to do three items, and that doesn't include Bill C-50. So the chair has to be fairly strict in that regard.
I hope members will continue with the air of cooperation we developed since Vancouver and allow us to proceed in the manner we're supposed to proceed in.
On questions, I don't know who was last.