Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I just have a couple of things. I noted that everyone on the past list was included, which is good. We would welcome Mr. Brown and Ms. Raitt to provide their testimony to this committee as well, and part c) remains unchanged from Mr. Bachrach's amendment at the last meeting.
I believe I heard Ms. O'Connell's motion say May 11, and we don't have four meetings between now and May 11 so I'm unsure how that would work. Maybe I misheard that.
I am also told that there is a motion at finance that would see several sections of the BIA moved to this committee, which would take precedence over any other business. We had a motion that's been circulated as well that just gives some more flexibility. I note that Mr. Sabia indicated that he could not meet on May 9 or 11 in his response, so it seems to remove him from the study altogether if that May 11 date is fixed.
We would propose to actually give more flexibility to the witnesses, several of whom, after initially saying they would not come, said that they could not come on those dates. I would just simply propose that we go to a much broader date range to give the clerk and the chair the opportunity to schedule these witnesses. We would suggest that these meetings occur prior to June 8. However, in terms of May 11, at this time, having come to where we are now, that's one week from now and I think we would say that we've seen some movement in the witnesses and this motion will get us to where we want to go, but I think the May 11 date is much too soon.
In that same spirit of collegiality and co-operation, I hope we can come to a date that's more reasonable to schedule everyone who we have now in this motion.