The minister has full discretion in approving or not approving this proposed merger, and he has timelines. I think Mr. Carrie has explained them. He could further ask the permission of the purchaser in this transaction for a further timeline, but the way this motion is laid out is vague in terms of how long a committee would take, and I do not know even if this would fit into the committee's agenda. That would have to be determined before it would fall within the guidelines of what the minister could say okay to or not.
On February 26th, 2008. See this statement in context.