The proposal that I had in mind was five meetings with the same kind of model that we've had on this past study, which is usually seeing four different groups within the course of a single meeting, so two and two.
I definitely recognize that this committee has a lot of other work that it wants to do, but also my understanding is that the study that HUMA is doing is not focused on domestic violence shelters. We could invite some of the several national shelter organizations. There are two ministries that are deeply involved: Infrastructure and Communities and Families, Children and Social Development. The YWCA Canada would be an example of an across-the-country body.
The witnesses that I scoped out with my staff were two ministries, four across-Canada network organizations, and then potentially, because it has been a focus around federal funding, maybe some of the indigenous organizations, Native Women's Association, Pauktuutit, or Women of the Métis Nation. I'm confident we would be able to do it within five meetings.
It might be able to inform the next budget cycle, and certainly, as some of my colleagues have suggested, if we weren't able to go into it in depth, or we found out after the next budget cycle that we needed to do more work, it's certainly an area that the committee could revisit.