In my opinion, this is not the spirit of the committee. We meet in committee to question people. If it were just a matter of sending questions in writing, we wouldn't need the committees. I'm just pointing out that I may be tabling a motion later on to call Mr. Moffet back in, especially given the circumstances of what was just announced about the Bay du Nord project.
And I won't hide from you that it irritates me somewhat to see a deputy minister who is no more prepared than that and who finds himself unable to appear because his equipment is broken. Frankly, it is not very serious. In my former life, I was a university teacher, and this reminds me of a student who says that he cannot hand in his work because his dog ate it. That's not very serious.
I'll put it to you this way. I hope it will not be taken away from my six minutes of speaking time.