Right now, there are many invariables before us.
MP Cumming, I'll get right to you in a moment
To the folks on the committee, know that I will do my best, if this motion is adopted, to schedule according to the wishes of the committee. However, I do not have control over schedules for ministers and agendas and so on and so forth.
If it is the will of the committee, what I can do is immediately get in touch with the ministers to check availability. If there is no availability for ministers this Thursday, what we could do is verify who is available.
Right now we have the competition commissioner; we could verify whether Bell is available—again checking availability, so that we do not lose any additional slots—and I can be back to the committee with a little draft schedule with respect to what is possible between now and December 11, if that is the will of the committee.
Right now, we're getting into a lot of the weeds on logistics, and I want to express to the committee that you have my commitment that whatever is the will of the committee for us to do, I will do my best to do, working with the constraints of the House and with the clerk to schedule accordingly.
I want to make sure that folks know that. Rest assured, we will check all of these things before booking; I do not want to lose any more meeting dates. If we do not have any ministers available, if this motion passes, for this Thursday, I do not want to have a situation in which we're cancelling a meeting. I wanted to clarify that with folks.
MP Cumming.