Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it.
I wanted to bring this to the committee today. It's a point of privilege with regard to the order of witnesses.
I give all due respect to the witnesses who are lined up today. Thank you for taking the time. We look forward to hearing your testimony at some point.
The concern and point of privilege I raise, Mr. Chair, is with regard to.... It's been a long-standing tradition and long-practised tradition of committees within the House of Commons and Parliament to ensure that there's proportionality of witnesses and that the witnesses from each of the parties are definitely considered, approached and added so that the witnesses who are heard in any committee, any hearing or any study properly represent the representation within the House and the structure of the committee.
When we look at the makeup of this particular study we've done and the witnesses we've heard from—