I have just an open comment. We talked before the meeting began just briefly. I'm not familiar with the article you're referring to. The minister and I speak on a fairly regular basis, but that part hasn't come up. I'm not familiar with the article; I haven't read it.
I do know that the intent of this committee was to actually sit down together as a group, listen to witnesses, get input from different groups that are affected with regard to the ombudsman part of it, so that we can actually put forward some ideas to the minister that we'd like to see included. The same is true with all the other issues we're going to be looking at.
I think the minister is probably very open to coming--I agree with what the chairman has said--but we do have a rather busy agenda for the next little while. Our job is to actually sit down at these meetings and come up with some firm ideas after listening to a number of groups for whom this will be of great concern. So I'd like to try to move that along as quickly as we can so that we could actually have an opportunity to give meaningful input before the minister makes a decision.