I know that in the last session we developed a habit of extending our meetings in order to accommodate a fairly aggressive agenda. I'm not opposed to extending meetings for that purpose.
If the government members are not willing to schedule a time during committee to have a conversation with members of the opposition to determine what the fall session is going to look like, regardless of whether or not we talked about extending a study on interswitching, for example, on the provisions that were being phased out in Bill C-30....
Yes, we agreed to do that. We put that extension in place until August 1, 2017. We said we would report back by that time. There was an agreement to do the study, but we didn't sit down and say that it's going to happen at the very beginning of the session, that we're going to take this many meetings to do it, and that we're going to launch into another study.
I think it's a sign of disrespect to members of the opposition not to plan to have that conversation at the beginning of a session. While you say you're reluctant to do that unless we extend the meetings, I think there's an expectation that it should be one of the first things that happens during a committee meeting at the beginning of a session.