Thank you, Darrell.
Mr. Minister, on behalf of committee members, I want to thank you for being here this evening with the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs. I'd also like to thank you for making yourself available so quickly, as the committee has just resumed its meetings.
I would now like to address committee members.
Based on the notice of meeting sent out, the meeting should be adjourned at 8:30 p.m. As you know, however, votes were taken. I would therefore like to propose something to you and very briefly hear your thoughts on it.
We are receiving other guests who were called to appear, namely the assistant deputy minister and the acting assistant deputy minister. We will take a break to test the audio with our guests. Given that several of you already have other engagements after 8:30 p.m., I propose that we test the audio and take a break, but that we do only one round of questions with the second group of witnesses. That would mean a single round of six minutes per member from each party.
Is that all right with you, or do you wish to take a full hour?
Rather than giving the floor to everyone, I will ask one of the vice-chairs, Mr. Desilets or Mr. Caputo, to tell me what he thinks of the suggestion.