Mr. Chair, I don't want to be a pain, but the committee traditionally met from one till two--two o'clock, of course, being question period most times. It never started at one, because people kind of wandered in. So there was never an immediate quorum at exactly one o'clock, and there was not the opportunity to consider the later budget requests, because people were leaving or we would lose quorum or something like that.
I'm wondering if we could perhaps try to start at 12:30, if at all possible, and then maybe peter out at about a quarter to two, so those who have SOs and those who have questions and things like that....
Now, of course, the problem is there may be committees that are sitting, and I don't know that, but I can just tell committee members that between one and two is a very short period of time to deal with the requests that have to be dealt with, especially when it doesn't start at one.