The goal of my motion today is to invite the minister to speak about infrastructure. I hope that the parties can reach an agreement so that the last meeting of the committee will last for at least two hours, and that the minister of Transport will speak about planned expenditures, Bill C-7 and new infrastructure projects, which is of key concern to Canadians.
That is the basic consensus I'm trying to see, Mr. Chair. We can agree today—and I'd like to seek the will of the committee otherwise—to have our next meeting a two-hour meeting, a meaningful exchange with the minister. He has been busy preparing. We've heard a lot about the preparations for how to get the economic stimulus and other stimulus infrastructure funds out, and I think that is the intent of the motion. I appreciate and I think we all respect that the minister is not well, that there's no way to pin him to a specific date. I hear the willingness from the parliamentary secretary to have flexibility on the minister's part when he is well and able. I'm just wondering if we also have consensus around the idea that we are talking about infrastructure and those related matters from the main estimates as opposed to coming back to Bill C-7 in our next session. I think that behooves what the committee needs to get done, and that's the nature of the motion I'm putting forward, Mr. Chair.