The goal we're working towards is that as soon as we get back to Parliament we would review a draft based on the directions.... I'm trying to think of a situation where you and the researcher might get conflicting points of view on how to proceed. It might not happen, but it could happen. I'm wondering, rather than just let everything hang in abeyance until the end of January, whether we could find a way to have a quick conference call.
I would agree, among ourselves, that I'll try to pull together our views as a caucus, if you like. But if the researchers are hearing one thing from the Conservatives and another from the NDP, maybe this is a way to break down that sort of impasse, so that when we come back we have a draft report we can look at, rather than leaving things hanging.