Okay.
As the chair, I did come prepared today with topics, and I'm happy to discuss it. We do have the room till one o'clock, so if we want to sit here we can certainly do so.
There were two panels the former government set up that have obviously reported under the new government. I think there's a fair amount of interest there. On the telecommunications panel, I know one member of the committee has already written me on this specific issue. There's also the commercialization panel that reported, and I know this was an interest to members on both sides. The second area I had was manufacturing, considering, obviously, both aerospace and auto, but other areas of manufacturing too.
The third area I had was about the national science policy advice infrastructure to the government; this is very much related to research and development, science and technology. It's also about looking at how we provide science advice. We have a science adviser. Mr. Fontana used to be a parliamentary secretary for science and technology. We've had a minister of state for science and technology in the past. We have a council of science and technology advisers to the industry minister. Are we providing advice in the best manner possible to the government and to Parliament or should it be changed? And that can be fit within a science and technology framework.
The fourth, and frankly, looking at some statements of all members of this committee, was looking at prosperity and competitiveness. Within that I think we could fit certainly research and development, going from basic research to product development to manufacturing. So those were some of the issues I had.
Also, someone raised the main estimates. My understanding is the main estimates have to be done by November 10, 2006. The Privacy Act does have to be done sometime this year. The price of gasoline wasn't on my list, but I was ready for it. So R and D, science and technology, tourism....
I certainly sense it's the will of the committee to invite the industry minister as soon as possible, so I think we'll certainly endeavour to do that. Should we provide some parameters? For instance, this telecommunications panel, the commercialization panel, overall economic performance, manufacturing--do we want to provide some parameters in the letter or do we just want it open-ended for him to...?
Mr. McTeague.