Mr. Chair, I've sat on committees where the headset no longer works or something happens, and the committee proceeds with asking questions of the witness and they supply the response in writing.
Absolutely that's not ideal, but this is a hybrid format, which is not what we have done in the past, and we've made do. I don't see why we couldn't have our questions posed to the witness since he's here, and then allow the responses to come back to the committee. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and we've done that in other committees.