Something to put in front of you for consideration is that after we meet with the Auditor General on Thursday, the normal practice is.... Sometimes it's that day, depending on how much time we have or thereafter. Anyway, there's an immediate process where we do two things.
One is to identify how many chapters we want to hold a public hearing on. That depends on a lot of factors and it will change from time to time. In the last Parliament, we did a minimum of four. It's a bit light by the way. We could do five, but four at a minimum. The question each time is how many we are going to do publicly and then the process for deciding.
Normally, and I'll throw it out while I have the floor, the practice was that the choices were made roughly by the ratio of seats. Therefore, if we did four, the government picked two chapters, the official opposition picked one, and the third party picked one.
