I think hit the nail on the head when he called it the “dead of summer”. Well, that's exactly why I think we should push off the ability to take the time to call witnesses and give them a chance to get here. It is the dead of summer, and there may be some difficulty for those who are on vacation or who have other plans to, in three days, be able to drop those plans and make it here to Ottawa for their ten-minute presentation and then a round of questions.
So that is the absolute point I was trying to make, that it is in the dead of summer. Why don't we push it to the end, where there's an opportunity...?
The parliamentary secretary suggested after Labour Day, even, after things sort of get back to normal. Even though we are not sitting yet as a Parliament, as a committee we certainly could do that.
Then the suggestion was, well, we can't interfere with the caucus meeting, which I agree with.
So let's have it two weeks from now, basically. Just over two weeks from now gives us time, gives me an opportunity, as a rightful member of this committee, to be here. That's why I can't support--