Thank you, MP Lemire.
The witness was already invited. She was invited for this Thursday and she is around this Thursday. She's in the country. She leaves on Friday. She was already invited and has refused to come.
She's available, but she hasn't said whether she's coming on the 12th. Frankly, at this stage, given the lack of response and her refusal to even acknowledge an invitation by the committee until my Friday motion for the summons.... Yes, it's a powerful tool that was tabled. All of a sudden she remembered that she had to phone back, or her assistant had to phone back, and said, “Oh, maybe I should come, now that you're going to use your power to summon a witness.”
At this stage, I'm not feeling comfortable that the witness who is proposed here is going to comply unless she's summoned.