That brings us to the end of our second round. We are at about 5:26 p.m., and I did ask at the beginning for the committee to indulge me in some committee business time at the end. Unless there's an objection, we should move to that.
I want to thank all of the witnesses for taking the time to contribute to this study. All of you have contributed in one shape or another to this study and with all the work you've done daily leading up to this. Thank you so much for being here. I will ask that you log off the Zoom call, so that we can proceed with committee business. I'll give you a moment to do that. Thank you again.
We are going to be live now. We're not in camera. Normally, we would do committee business in camera, but there are a few things we need to get done. I didn't want to keep everybody an additional half an hour logging off and logging back on. Just be aware that we are not in camera.
First and foremost on my list, I want to get agreement from the committee to adopt the study budget. Normally, we'd be in Parliament, and we'd have the paperwork in front of us with the breakdown of the budget. I can assure you, one of the positives of COVID-19 is that the budgets are a fraction of what they used to be. From the direction of the clerk, the high end on the budget is going to be $3,250, and that's if microphones are sent out to everybody and so on.
I'm hoping we can get agreement from the committee to move forward on that budget.
Are there any questions? The clerk is willing to answer any questions as well, but normally a committee of this length would be in the tens of thousands of dollars, with travel, hotels and all that sort of thing. The amount of $3,250 is very reasonable, I think.