Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have heard what the members have said, and I do respect that there are certainly some questions.
I'd like to state again that as this notice of motion is written, to have “the Minister of Industry, Jim Prentice, appear before the committee in the next two weeks to answer questions concerning the review by Industry Canada, under the Investment Canada Act, of the proposed sale of part of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. to American-owned Alliant Techsystems”.... Under the Investment Canada Act, “no one shall knowingly communicate or allow to be communicated any such information or allow anyone to inspect or to have access to any such information”.
If this is what you're asking, all I'm saying is that you're asking him to do something he cannot do. If there are other things this committee decides they would like to talk to the minister about, as a committee we can always request that the minister come here. But what you have written here won't work.
You mentioned the criteria. If you would like to have a briefing on how the Investment Canada Act works, I'm sure the minister would be happy to actually get you that briefing so that you know exactly what's happening in the process. But he won't be able to comment on what you've asked for in this notice of motion.