That concludes the business of the day. With the consent of the committee, we might just have a very brief discussion about future business and probably get out of here before 4 o'clock, if that's agreeable to everybody.
Do I have the consent of the committee for a general discussion? Good.
First I'd like to welcome Martha, but she's not here. Please give her our best regards.
We had kind of a late start this session, and I think there were some outstanding things we were going to talk about. I think it was the previous direction of the committee that we might try to work in some travel to some potential future free trade targets, including the European Union. Others, including India and China, had also been mentioned, and I can't recall what else had been suggested.
In any event, there have been a number of requests and expressions of interest by member states of the European Union, and these are now pressing that agenda. This is also something I think we previously talked about. It's such a broad area that it was suggested that if we did travel we would perhaps in this case split the committee, perhaps travelling to Brussels together for a few days and then dividing up into two or three groups to travel around. It's difficult to go with more than two groups because we have to bring along extra staff, which can make it cumbersome.
In any event, that is what I thought, and I kind of want to get that going. If we're going to do that, it seems the target weeks would be at the end of October. If we're going to do Europe by the end of October, we had better get the wheels in motion.
The other one I had pegged in my mind was India, probably in February. I just wanted to kick it off.
In terms of ongoing business, I think there is at least the EU. That's where I would be going, unless somebody else had some thoughts on where to proceed beginning on Monday.
So we'll have just a quick round if anybody has any comments on that idea. As I say, if we're going to do a fall trip, we have to get it going.
Mr. Silva and then Mr. Julian.