Mr. Chair, I certainly agree with my colleague that it could be a very healthy agenda for this committee, which is an important one for Canada.
That said, we don't start devouring that healthy complement of work until we actually get our first number of witnesses. In fairness, she may not know, but doing that sometimes takes some weeks once witness names are submitted. We've already had several months of Parliament during which this committee has not sat. I'm just trying to make sure that we make this an effective use of our time.
I'm not saying what our agenda will be for the entire session. If we don't want to start the process on just one agenda item, the alternative would be that since all of us have the two hours of this committee booked, we could adjourn and have an instant meeting of the subcommittee right now and discuss the same issues.
The point I tried to make to my friend earlier was that the subcommittee is intended to be a smaller group that you can get together to move forward on a working basis. Since we have the whole group here, with no agenda and a very light legislative calendar, why would we not at least pick the first topic of examination? If that's not the consensus, I'd be happy to adjourn this meeting and have the subcommittee meet to do the same thing.