I just wanted to say that I think if we had a meeting with ISED officials in camera, we could speak to them and question them about the contract. It just wouldn't be able to be in public, obviously. I think that removes the challenges with having seen something that would normally not be given public access. We could maybe deal with it that way. That way members could be assured they would be able to ask the questions that they want to ask the ISED officials. That, to me, seems like a good compromise.
I know we've said six hours of meetings. I'm thinking three meetings. The committee might choose to break it up in different ways. It might be an extra hour per meeting. I'd rather see us do it in three two-hour meetings. That way we would get the ministers in one meeting. I think the ambassador and any other witnesses would be in another meeting, and then probably there would be a third meeting, which would be to review the contract, unredacted job numbers.... Mr. Perkins said that those numbers were unredacted in the previous Volkswagen contract. That's great. Members would get the answers to their questions. Then they could ask questions of the ISED officials. That might be a way we could move forward on this.
I would be interested to know what members of the various parties think.
I'll be sending along the wording of the proposed amendment right now.