I don't know if I can. I just think we're in the middle of doing a report. It looked like we were going to be able to have the text of that done. I don't want to speak out of camera here, but it will be probably before the break. We spent a couple of meetings on that.
It looks like we can get that done and set that aside. We're at a different stage with that. It would be finished. In the context of this, if I were Mr. Cullen I would like to go ahead with this as well, because he's the one who presented the motion with his list of witnesses that he wants to bring.
I understand and respect his argument. He wants to bring that list forward. But I think in order to be fair--unless we're only going to hear those witnesses, have one meeting with those witnesses and that would be good enough--I think it's fair to the other members of the committee to say get your witness list and let's see what we can do.
He said that nobody is opposed to the witnesses. We don't operate that way here. If people want to bring witnesses forward--whether we agree with the witnesses or not--we don't stop them from coming or object to them coming to the committee.
I just think it's fair for everyone else to be able to bring their witnesses forward, put a witness list together, have our--I think it's two--meetings that we want to have. They'll be that same week and that will give some continuity to it as well. Then we can go back to what we were doing in an hour.
I guess my other question is if it's two meetings, it's probably just hearings. If we're going to be extending this out... I think Mr. Cullen has actually expanded the discussion here, because he's talked about offshore drilling and he talked about mainly focusing on the Beaufort. His motion talks about drilling and production in all of Canada. So I don't think that the motion is so focused that we don't stand a chance of really wandering off in a number of directions here before we're done.
So I think we should get our witness list in. There are other companies who are working in the gulf already. There are Canadian companies down there who may want to have an opportunity to come and speak to us as well. I just think that we should all be able to get our witness list before the committee moves. We'll certainly try to do that as quickly as we can.