I want to speak further to the motion, because there seems to be a misapprehension about yesterday's motion, which was adopted. Members had ample time to discuss it then.
Meetings will be scheduled with the consultation and consensus of the subcommittee and committee—however this committee proceeds under your guidance, Chair. Because we were venturing into these unknown waters as far as the public accounts committee is concerned, having numerous meetings and witnesses from outside the scope of the usual Auditor General officials and government departments, each party had the opportunity to invite witnesses. You, with the clerk, have already provided us the opportunity to do that in this scope, with ample lead time to April 10.
What I'm concerned about in this motion that is before us today is it constricts the time to “within seven days”. We already have a work plan, and we discussed yesterday how important it is for all members to have an established work plan so that we can plan our own work, instruct our staff, do research and prepare ourselves adequately for each meeting. Now it looks like we're going to have to have an extra meeting to accommodate this request when it could be accommodated very easily within the normal practice used by other committees, which was adopted in yesterday's motion.
Chair, please tell us what this would mean for our work plan schedule, because we were very pleased to receive that work plan yesterday at 8:43 from the clerk.