—and talk about another topic.
The Standing Orders of the House of Commons of course require this committee to consider your department's report on plans and priorities in conjunction with the main estimates. We would normally have your plans and priorities report in our hands at this point when we have the main estimates, but the government is refusing to table those until mid-May.
The question is this: will you commit to return to the committee once your department's report on plans and priorities has been tabled so that we can fulfill our mandate and our responsibilities under the Standing Orders? I hope you would agree, in terms of what your priorities are, that the priority of coming here and becoming accountable before this committee, before members of Parliament, would be one of your high priorities.