On the issue of a dissenting or supplementary report, the way the Standing Orders read is that those reports can be appended to the main report of the committee after the signature of the chair. They're not part of the actual report of the committee. It has to be approved by the committee, whether or not they allow the appended report, and the committee then determines the length of this report. In most cases, in this committee before, it's been one or two pages, but that's entirely up to the committee. The committee doesn't have any say as to the content once it allows a supplemental report. It's allowed and it's just appended in both official languages. So I would recommend that we deal with that at the time when the report is done, unless you want to have a blanket motion that you allow anybody to--but that's getting a little ridiculous, I think.
On the issue of getting a letter from the deputy minister—and this would be a fact-based letter from the deputy minister—to be considered when we consider the report, let me get the consent of the committee.
Yes?