Perhaps I could speak to that before I go to Mr. Angus.
I was informed by the clerk at 2:54 that she was doing the audio checks with the Net-Zero panel participants. One of the members had poor Internet. He did not have the headset with him that had been sent from the House of Commons, which, as everyone knows, is required for participating via Zoom for interpretation purposes. This was during question period that I was notified. This is why we were doing the tech checks in advance. But one person was not able to get his technology working. At about three o'clock we did everything we could to see if there were alternate arrangements. He ended up having to decline.
We pushed hard to see if the second panellist would come. I have a text, during question period, showing that I asking the clerk if we could coax, cajole or otherwise encourage the remaining panellists from Net-Zero to still be here so that we wouldn't lose this panel. They declined. It was a hard no. They said they needed to appear as a team. It had been planned that way.
At that point, I asked the clerk to see if our second panel would be flexible in their time and move up to 3:30 so that we wouldn't lose the first hour. I had asked if we could keep going back to the Net-Zero panel to see if they could get their tech problems worked out by 4:30, with the hope that we might be able to bring them in after our first panel.
At this point they have not been able to resolve those issues, and that's where we are right now.
That's the explanation I can offer on that.
I will go to Mr. Angus for a point of order, and then Ms. Rempel Garner, I'll come back to you.