There is a problem with limiting ourselves, on such an important bill, to only four meetings for witnesses. We see the amount of interest. We have 99 people interested right off the hop, and we saw how fast two hours go with one minister. How fast would one hour go with three ministers?
To Mr. Virani's point, that leaves us three more meetings of two sessions each. That's six sessions times four witnesses. That's 24 spots, of which the Conservatives have 12. That leaves only 12 left to split among the other three parties, so the numbers do not add up. If we're going to have 12, 12, 4 and 4, it would require moving to five witnesses per panel, and that's not fair to those witnesses, probably. It wouldn't leave much time after opening remarks for questions and answers. Somehow the math is not quite adding up.