Mr. Chair, I am extremely disappointed with the position of the Bloc. That said, for the purposes of moving this forward—albeit in a way that I don't think is very balanced—I am going to be supporting the motion, simply because we have to hear from witnesses. Given that the Bloc has decided to support the Conservatives on that, I will have to proceed on that basis.
My suggestion and my caveat in supporting the motion is that we should identify the witnesses that we have and come to a concurrence on when those witnesses will be speaking. My reason for that, Mr. Chair, with all due respect to your suggestion, is that in the much heralded spirit of balancing out interests that was described earlier, I think each day needs to be balanced. Typically the clerk, for purposes of simplicity, puts government witnesses on one day and opposition witnesses on another day. I don't agree with that. In this instance, it is inappropriate. So my suggestion, and I will do this prescriptively by way of amendment, is that each day the committee has a balance of opposition and government witnesses.