I just want to be clear so that people understand what I meant. When I said that we should invite the minister to discuss what we want to study, I'm not looking at that as orders to the committee; I'm looking at that as a request to the committee. The committee does its own work, and the minister and the department do their own work. If he presents a bill, we have no choice--that becomes priority one for us. We have to deal with the government bills, then we deal with private members' bills, and then we can do our own study.
I have no problem with studying the charter. The government provides the documentation about where you're going, and we start with that documentation. But there might be other areas of study that are of interest to the committee, and I think we shouldn't wait too long to start that, because it's very quick. This spring is almost over. We won't be able to call three witnesses before the spring recess. So we're really working for the fall session right now.