Okay—you're all kind of jumping to where I was going to go, to what I was going to say. I'm going to leave it on this note.
This committee is welcome to take this up this Thursday or a week from Monday.
Members, I will let you decide that among yourselves. I am your servant. There will be three options for this committee to consider either this Thursday or on Monday. Those are, one, to accept the department's—the government's—reasoning; two, to try to seek an acceptable compromise—and I won't speak to what I think that compromise for members would be—and three, to reject the reasons the department gives if it does not produce the document and then consider turning it over to the House of Commons.
Those are the avenues we will have. I think we should take them up at a different time.
Mr. Genuis, I would really like to hear from the witnesses, so, as a courtesy, be very quick. I'm not going to allow a speech on this because—