Yes, Mr. Chair. It's really great to list a bunch of people we want to invite to a meeting, but for what purpose? In trying to deal with this motion, I think what you want to do is put your invitees around what kind of objective we want to achieve; it speaks to the point of setting committee business. What we are doing now, by entertaining a motion like this, is potentially changing the committee business we set prior to Christmas, which is a study on forestry. That would end up changing this.
My problem with this is that unless we have an objective, how are we going to know what we would want to build a witness list around and who are the proper witnesses we would invite?
Furthermore, I will reiterate the chair's comments. I do know that my constituents like to see me in my riding. I'm not sure about the others, but they do like to see me. There's some business I would like to accomplish.
I think we should make this a normal part of our business when we return. It's only a week and a half.