I understand. In the spirit of where we are in terms of the numbers, we don't often get the minister and his staff before our committee. There are some other single questions we wouldn't mind asking. I know we have a million questions; you can never ask them all. But we don't often get the privilege of their experience here. They're extremely busy people. We have a lot of time to do committee business and the vote on these supplementary estimates. Having another quick question from each of us, as you said, of one minute each, I don't think would delay the process we want to do. I think, just as a courtesy to the opposition and yourselves, it would be most appropriate to ask the one-minute questions of our esteemed officials.
On November 22nd, 2011. See this statement in context.