Mr. Chair, I am hearing some things... If Mr. Keddy says that he wants to deal with this matter quickly next week, it is probably because he thinks that we will not be here in two weeks, starting the week of June 16. So, if the committee is not sitting in the week of June 16, we run the risk of not finishing our Colombia task either. If Mr. Keddy knows that the House is going to be prorogued any day now, it is almost certain that we will not be able to finish working on Colombia or on the free trade agreement that we want to start looking at.
So we have a problem because there a number of things we do not know. We might have a time problem. I even have difficulty imagining that we can produce a draft report before the end of the session unless our research analyst has worked 24 hours a day since we got back from Colombia. There really is a lot of material to deal with.
So I am wondering about the government's motives. If we finish neither the study on Colombia nor the one on the FTA, we are certainly going to continue the Colombian one when we return. Or perhaps we are going to stay long enough to finish the report. So we could quickly find out if other witnesses are needed next week.
Personally, I have some very specific questions. If we continue our work next week, people from the department are probably going to appear. Some of them can give us information on specific aspects of the FTA and its implementation, can they not? That is why I am a little ambivalent on the work schedule.