Mr. Chair, I like what Mr. Dhaliwal is doing. Because Thursday is so close to Tuesday, even if something urgent came up on Tuesday, you wouldn't have enough time to get the witnesses in for that Thursday. This way you have a week and a half to get witnesses lined up for the first TPP meeting on the Thursday. We have our briefing on the Tuesday.
We can still decide priorities after Thursday's meeting, so the next Tuesday we can sit down and say okay let's take the first half hour, or the last half hour and then look at what other things you want to talk about. If we travel, for example—and I know you talked about going to the U.S.—we may still want to talk about softwood lumber down in the U.S., and we may want to talk about other issues. If we were going to travel down there, TPP would be part of the conversations, and maybe we'd have some other conversations about other things we want to talk about.
But that allows the clerks to at least organize for that Thursday meeting. Then we'll have a very productive Thursday meeting and then, after that meeting on Thursday if there's time or on the Tuesday morning of the following week if there's not, we can coordinate a little bit more. Then if the officials say something is absolutely a must, they will have a week from Tuesday to Tuesday. There's nothing saying we have to have only one study on the go. We can actually have one, two, or maybe three studies on the go.