Further to Jack's question about the whips allowing us to go, his concern is with question period on Thursday. Mine is whether all whips will let our members go. Really we're not getting as much done as we can over the course of time, even before we do our report, if we lose members, so the more members of the committee who can travel, the better.
With that in mind, I'm wondering if the clerk has considered.... Before we even go that far, if we have consensus among our members, perhaps we could try for the Shilo trip on a Monday. So when we're coming into town, instead of stopping in Ottawa on Sunday night, we'd go directly to Shilo and spend the day there. Very rarely is there a vote on a Monday, and the whips will much more likely enable committee members to travel if we schedule it that way. That would take time out of your Sunday, so I would want some agreement among the members that they would be willing to do so before proposing that to the clerk.