I hope the committee will receive this positively.
First of all, I want to compliment the officials for coming here and giving us a briefing. I know they're going to be here for a little while longer and they've been very precise in some of the responses they have been giving, but it has been, so far, a departmental briefing.
The point of order I want to make is that we have an opportunity to have the minister come forward and address questions by the critics on this side and by interested government members on the other. This is the second time that we've had him here in the course of the last week and a half, and it's wonderful to get a minister at the table. When we do get him here, I wonder whether we can encourage the chair to have him address the questions, which are essentially political in nature, in the sense that we want to get to the heart of the motivation behind the legislation. The officials have done a marvellous job in giving us the detail of the legislation. So I'm wondering whether it is your intention, Mr. Chairman, to invite the minister back to address those issues that are going to be of concern to parliamentarians on the floor of the House.