Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We have to recognize as well that we had main estimates but we didn't have the minister come and speak to us in this round, so we missed out on that opportunity. It's been months since we've had the minister come to this committee. Really, it expands on lines of questions that we have from all members here, where, for example, the officials weren't really able to answer any questions. There has been a desire, maybe loosely even talked about with the group, to have the minister come.
This just formalizes it, so that we can have it happen before we rise to go to our constituencies for the summer. Surely the minister would be able to accommodate. We had a meeting that was cancelled, which was unfortunate, because then maybe that wouldn't have backed things up. That was really not in our control, for those of us on the committee anyway. I think it's a reasonable request considering the importance of the study and that we haven't had officials who have been able to answer questions.