No, not yet. I've spoken to the minister and he's quite amenable to come to the committee earlier on; it's just a question of working out the schedule. We have a representative of the department here, but we haven't got the schedule yet.
I think we can safely presume that we're going to hear from the department on Thursday. We'll start at 11 o'clock with a briefing from the department, with essentially their mandate and perhaps constitutional jurisdictions, whatever, but essentially their mandate, from the department's perspective, what it is this department does specifically. Then we'll get into how it relates to Environment and other departments, International Trade, whatever.
Let's start at 11 o'clock on Thursday with the department officials. Perhaps we should ask them for an hour and a half of their time. We may have some questions, but I think generally we'll probably go for the first hour with an information session and then allow some questions. But my sense is that most of the questions would probably relate to seeking further clarifications of matters, or written responses, rather than things they had been asked.
Let's have an open dialogue. We'll have them start off with maybe 40 minutes of briefing on Thursday and then have an open dialogue with the committee, if that's amenable to people. We'll wrap that up within the first 90 minutes so we would have 30 minutes at the end of that meeting to perhaps continue a general discussion of agenda setting and priorities. If it's agreeable to the committee, I suggest that maybe that last 30 minutes on Thursday be in camera, wherein we can decide what we want to do with the future committee meetings.
Is that agreeable to everybody?