I want to thank Ms. Hutchings so much. I was feeling so lonely and left out. I thought maybe it was just me.
I wanted to correct the record in case people had a false idea. Mr. Serré said this motion was not allowing the NDP to bring witnesses. We are pretty fierce when we want to bring witnesses. For my colleague Lindsay Mathyssen, it's my understanding that this was an attempt to get this study done because there are many other priorities. We agreed with that, so this was an agreement on one and a half meetings. You can stack it up with as many witnesses as you want, but it probably wouldn't be all that useful at the end of the day.
If there were witnesses we felt we needed to add to the study, we would add them, but we are focused on the other priorities of this committee that have been identified. I don't need to enumerate them all. However, if we believe we have to bring witnesses, we will certainly be more than willing to bring witnesses to committee, but at this point we want to try to get this study done and get it moved on so that we can get to the other stuff that the committee is very involved in.
Thank you.