I think it's perfectly reasonable to have the minister come here and to ask questions of him on a whole range of issues. What I would prefer is that we just have a vote on this motion, and if there's insufficient support, then the committee can always decide whether it would like to invite the minister at some later date to appear, to ask him very general questions. But this motion is specifically about one sale, an issue about which I have received a great deal of response from the community, and I would prefer that if there is insufficient support, we just vote on it and be done with it.
On January 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.