Mr. Chairman, I have two important issues to bring forward, and I need answers.
Firstly, we must do an examination of the 2009-10 Supplementary estimates part B. When do you plan on having us examine these estimates?
Secondly, a remark was made by our whips at caucus. Some of you did not attend your respective caucuses yesterday. I fully understand. We are being asked to mention at each of our Committees that from now on MPs will not have to use their MP points for travel or missions within Canada. We were told yesterday that the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development is one of the only committees — there may be a few others — whose members are required to use their points to travel in Canada. We were also told that we were to make requests to travel in smaller groups or, if the entire membership of the committee is to travel, that we must ask for additional monies.
Those are the two issues I wanted to bring up with regard to future travel by the Committee.