I just want to again put on the record that I have advertised events in my riding on the 21st and the 23rd. For you people from urban Ontario and Quebec ridings it's a very different world. Living in rural ridings...it takes an awfully long time to get through. I take my responsibilities on the natural resources committee seriously. I'm not the most aggressive partisan player in the House. I think people know I value the technical information here, and I just don't feel that that's been afforded due respect by all members of this committee, some of whom have a fairly cavalier attitude toward calling meetings whenever it is at their personal pleasure.
I do not want a substitute for me; I will have to have a substitute. So I'm essentially being asked to skip the next meeting.