Since we're in the spirit of proposing more meetings here, I wanted to ask...this is obviously quite significant: the witness list, as it's developing, and the amount of time that's going to be committed to these two meetings. Personally, if we're going to go straight into hearing witnesses, I would first of all like to hear a briefing from the department on the technicalities of this agreement. I mean, I've only had so much information as well, even being on the government side. We haven't had a lot of time to go through this.
So I would like to propose that we get a technical briefing before the witnesses come in--because we are proposing some pretty important witnesses here--and have the staff from the department also give us their rundown on whether or not our witness list is complete, or maybe some suggestions that we may have left out. I think this should happen before any meeting on July 31.
I would say, since we're all here and working, that Tuesday, July 18, we should meet and get the department here, because we might need a long time to go through this agreement. So I want to propose this, and I know the opposition won't oppose, because they want to work and they are taking this very seriously.
So let's get a technical briefing next week on July 18 to prepare for the witness list, because we may need to add more people to this list and get their information. That way we're prepared for July 31.
So I propose that we--