Mr. Drouin, you are new to this committee, but not new to the House of Commons.
The committee would like to conduct a study on SDTC. The names of the witnesses have already been submitted. Approving the budgets is a formality. All the members of the committee here have better things to do than debate what should be a formality, because the matter has already been voted on and the committee has decided that it wants to proceed with the study.
Could we, in good faith, approve the budget allocated for the witnesses and move on to something else please? Once again, the witness list has already been validated by a motion passed by the committee.