Chair, I'm not talking about a long-term study. We've got a budget going before the House that has significant sections in it that pertain to the work of this committee. I'm not saying that the whole budget bill should come here. The only bit I want us to be able to examine in a relaxed manner...and I agree with Mr. Dykstra, this is the place where we get to do some of the real work, where we get to explore and see where there are problems and try to find solutions together.
This is not something I can leave for another week or two or three because of the way time allocation has been moved on the budget. So what I'm looking for is not that we should stop everything today, but when we come back into this meeting Monday or Tuesday, we could start taking a look at the parts of the budget that are directly related to immigration, to our work.
I have no time to be saying let's bring the whole budget here. That belongs somewhere else. There's a finance committee to take a look at that side of the budget. But in that budget, even on my very brief reading, there are elements that I feel are the purview of this committee to discuss. All I'm asking is for some time to do that.