Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I did flag this with the committee earlier today. We did have time to organize this. You did have time to substitute somebody for any member who wasn't able to stay.
Someone's life is on the line, and you're suggesting that we will discuss this in two weeks. We don't even have a committee meeting next week. This is two weeks from now. That is absolutely unacceptable.
This is somebody who came before our committee, and the risk to them because they did so is the responsibility we have to take on. To say that the 10 minutes or the 30 minutes or the hour it would take, frankly, is not worth our time, yet we can wait two weeks and ask this person to wait two weeks....
We either need to do something tonight or we need to have an emergency meeting set up tomorrow. I think it is unbelievable that you would even suggest that we would wait two full weeks to deal with this important emergency issue.