Okay. I don't need a motion about that. I just wanted to say it.
In the meantime, we're not sure about witnesses for Tuesday. So what I would like to do on Tuesday, with your concurrence, is to really get into the agenda for the next six weeks and perhaps into the fall.
I've asked the clerk to send a memo as early as today, and certainly you'll get it tomorrow, that will ask you for, first of all, a list of witnesses we might hear in the context of what we heard today, not so much selling their industry or point, or whatever, but providing you and me with background information. We're talking about people like the forest industry, the Energy Dialogue Group, miners and prospectors, NGOs--not to be selling a partisan or particular point of view but really just providing us with information. I'd like to do that for a couple of weeks, as we discussed previously.
I would welcome your thoughts on who we might have appear as witnesses. I see that Mr. Trost has sent one in. He wants to have some witnesses come and give us some background on greenhouse gases, energy, and the economy, concerning mining in Canada. He has suggested the Mining Association and the Prospectors and Developers Association.
I want to get your thoughts. So whoever you want, let's get them in. The clerk will send you a memo. Let's see if we can get those to the clerk by Monday. We'll bring them all to the committee on Tuesday, and rather than have the clerk and me decide, we'll have the whole committee decide.
In addition to that, I think we may as well get into a discussion of perhaps some short-term topics. I don't think we're going to get into the big one before the end of the term, but Mr. Cullen had suggested a couple earlier. We've heard about interest in perhaps discussing softwood for a couple of meetings, getting some information on science and technology and how to fix the energy sector--that came up today. I'm just throwing these out as ideas of where we might constructively use the committee's time to get into a couple of these topics short term, before the June break.
So you'll send out a note, Mr. Clerk.
If you bring everything in, he'll compile what he gets and send it out to you so that you have it before Tuesday's meeting. But it's short notice, so if you don't get it all in, bring it on Tuesday.
Roy.