Thank you very much.
While I will not denigrate the importance of any subject that comes before this committee, I'd like to remind members that we have a guest here today who has made some effort to be here. There seems to be a growing trend, I've noticed, that we want to argue or discuss these issues at the start of the meeting. As a courtesy to our guests, why don't we honour that respect? Why don't we hear them for the limited period of time that we have them here? Then if a member of any side has an issue to bring forward, I think it's absolutely and genuinely their right to do so.
But I think out of respect and courtesy, which I think we would all like to show, it's appropriate that we hear our guests first. Otherwise, do a different scheduling of our agenda so our guests can respond accordingly. So I would respectfully suggest that this be handled after our guests have left.