Thank you, Madam Chair.
I don't have any trouble with the witness appearing at the next committee meeting. There seems to be quite a lot of assumption that, somehow, it's not what people want. I would love for the guy to show up. In fact, I would love it if he actually showed up today so we could get to the bottom of it. That said, I don't have any trouble whatsoever with him showing up at the next committee meeting.
The other thing I want to point out is that it seems that at this committee, there are always these questions of privilege. I recollect a situation in the past where a question of privilege was raised about an email sent that included government or ministerial officials. I recall I moved a motion in that instance to invite the law clerk to come and speak to committee—which took some time, by the way. We eventually had that come before committee, but we were able to still carry on with the work we needed to do while we waited for that information.