Colleagues, the last item we're going to deal with is the ratification of the minutes of the meeting of the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure, which was on Tuesday. They've been circulated. I'll just go over them very briefly. The first item is basically the agenda for the next two weeks. What the steering committee has decided is to attempt to write reports on chapters 5, 7, 8, and a special chapter on accounting, and that's what we'll start at our meeting next Tuesday.
Also, at the last meeting there was discussion on the chapter regarding Indian Affairs and Northern Development. The deputy minister was not in attendance. He did call me right after the meeting and he said he would be here. I brought this up at the steering committee and it was confirmed at the steering committee that we would invite him to appear. He's been confirmed from 11, but that should be a fairly brief appearance. I wouldn't want to waste a whole lot of time on that issue, but I think it is important that he attend.
On the next item, Members, we had a discussion on the briefings that we've been having over the last couple of weeks and we felt that they did not take the form we intended they should take and we've decided to discontinue them. At present, we may revisit it in a different format. Later on, maybe we'll just call the Auditor General's office--it depends on the topics we're dealing with--but right now we felt that, hey, they are much more formal than we thought and the members weren't really using them for a briefing; they were using them more for the substance of the report.
The third item is the round table on the committee's effectiveness and efficiency. That has been scheduled for Thursday, June 22. That would be the last meeting we would schedule. Depending on how Parliament does, we could continue, but we won't schedule anything after Thursday, June 22.
Mr. Christopherson.