I want to talk as well about the opportunity, and maybe the missed opportunity, with regard to what the committee could be doing. If we put forward the nine recommendations or compromises to the questions that came forward the other day, as the chairman has said, nine out of twelve would be very likely much appreciated and respected by the opposition.
I understand the somewhat.... Well, what about if we don't get along with them? Well, then, I guess a dissenting report can come from that.
The whole gist is that we had hoped to have gone down through the whole issues report put out by the researchers and to have worked down through this one step at a time. That hasn't happened, and didn't happen. But that's sort of what negotiations are about, so I'm a little concerned about that.
Now we're at this sort of impasse on who is going to do what, and who is going to hang out the longest, I guess, and that isn't good for this committee.
With that, I still would ask the people opposite to reconsider their position. I mean, it's about not being able to come out and.... The minister, in what I would say was an unusual move, took those and actually responded back through the chair. And I have not seen those comments. I don't believe any of us have, other than the chair.
I guess in good faith I would say that I don't think anybody here is in a position to want to embarrass the minister, or to embarrass the government in particular. He has gone out and made compromises on a majority, a large majority, of those recommendations.