We have read the mandate, and everybody can get a copy of the mandate letter, which is nice to see.
I think there's a misunderstanding that we're just going to have one meeting. All I'm saying is that you have your one overall briefing on the Tuesday. It's a full meeting, so give it the full two hours. You may want to do another one. Again, it doesn't prevent you from having other briefings. In fact, you can have briefings in the evening from the department. The parliamentary secretary can put on briefings, if he so chooses. That option is there.
All I'm saying is that one of the first of maybe many meetings on the TPP.... You may find that there are six meetings and then say that we need nine meetings. I'm not necessarily putting an end to that. I'm just saying let's get started.
The clerks can coordinate things. They have two weeks to get witnesses here basically, so they can coordinate the witnesses for that first meeting. The witnesses could be people from Ottawa, from the department, who are going to brief us specifically on the TPP. That's fair. At least we can go back to our constituents and say we've started the study and we're moving forward.
It doesn't preclude us from doing other things, so don't think that this is just the one meeting. All I'm trying to do is help him coordinate the clerks so they have work to do during the break week to get that lined up. You can get your witness lists in to him too.
It sounds like we're going to do the study on the TPP. I think everybody is in agreement on that, so that's one thing we have consent on. Let's move forward, just make the start and see where it goes from there.