All right. Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think one of the key things here is the fact that we have been saying that we have recommendations that we need to get to the clerk so the analysts can draft them and then have these recommendations translated and tabled in the House on time so that we can have a very good report that we can put to the government as soon as possible.
I find it really interesting that there has been talk from the other side that “It's okay; we'll put in the recommendations this afternoon, so that's not a problem”, but then we're going to hear more witnesses. What then is the purpose of hearing from more witnesses if it is not to have recommendations? To me, it seems that it's just political. It isn't about trying to get recommendations to the government.
Speaking of the recommendations, this committee has heard a lot of very good recommendations. I think this goes to the heart of the motion that we're debating today, which is that rather than continuing and hearing more and more witnesses.... As I'd remind the members, it has been constantly this way. This isn't just one person who has not come; this is every time. We were supposed to have two or three meetings on this, and then all of a sudden there's a motion that says we need these four witnesses within 14 days, and they have to come for two hours each. They only have two people at a time, which means you have to, of course, have emergency meetings. You have to have only two, then you have another one, so it's an hour per witness. Every time we get to the end of that, all of a sudden more motions come forward for more witnesses.
It isn't that we've just suddenly at this point tried to somehow cut it off, and this is why I'm glad that the motion that passed actually says that we won't continue, because we do have good recommendations. Frankly, I'd like to talk about some of the recommendations that have been discussed by the witnesses on this particular study.