First of all, my understanding is that it's actually outside of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's mandate. He's mandated to appear in front of three committees, and this is not one of them.
The other problem I have is that this is dated for this week. I believe Mr. Kennedy is a full member. This is the second time he has appeared for a motion at the end of the committee. My difficulty with this is that it's not just the steering committee that recently set the agenda for the committee; rather, it was the entire committee itself. I'm not certain if Mr. Kennedy was actually at that meeting. Alberta is not ready for the question about infrastructure, and many other parts of Canada aren't either.
So it is beyond the mandate of the Parliamentary Budget Officer to be at this committee—I don't think he's even allowed to be here. In addition, it's a premature application that goes against the spirit of cooperation of the committee, which set its agenda just three or four meetings ago.
I don't understand why Mr. Kennedy shows up at the beginning of the parade to set the agenda for a motion. I find it difficult to move forward with the agenda of the committee if you're going to appear just to move a motion rather than to deal with the substantive part of the agenda of the committee itself, which is legislation.