I'm sorry for whatever miscommunication there may have been. The Thursday when there is not something currently scheduled is the 30th, not the 23rd. There may have been a miscommunication there. Mr. Kingston and some others had been invited to the final EV meeting that we were holding. It is not Thursday the 23rd; it is Thursday the 30th, when we already had meetings set.
It's the will of the committee. Witnesses have already been confirmed, so there's always a small risk that witnesses who have agreed and committed might not be able to return, but here's a suggestion: If we feel that this is as urgent as I'm hearing members suggest it is, my recommendation would be that we turn the 20th—it's short notice, but we're going to have to do our best—the 23rd and the 27th into meetings on this. We would bump our final EV meeting and our final AI meeting, and it would mean not having to disrupt Minister Solomon's appearance. In other words, we're taking the final AI meeting and the final EV meeting, and we're moving them in order to accommodate what is one open space and two currently occupied spaces, which would deal with the urgent nature of this discussion.
We would have to accept two things. One is that witnesses who have accepted our invitations may no longer be available—that's the first thing—and the second is that it puts a fair amount of pressure on the clerk and her team to get witnesses ready to go for Monday. I suspect that members around the table have been in contact with industry officials, who would drop most things in their calendars in order to make this work for Monday.
I would simply insist to members around the table that if this is what we agree upon vis-à-vis the schedule, you should assist the clerk in making sure those witnesses are picking up their phones right away and making themselves available to the committee.
I'm just looking for some guidance.