I have a point of order.
I'll just say this briefly because I don't want to take time away from our witnesses. I think it's very important we hear from them. I wanted to make a quick comment as a point of order this morning.
We had received an amended notice for this meeting indicating committee business time in the last 15 minutes, during the time when we do have veterans. I guess it's been changed now and there's only one veteran, but we did have veterans scheduled.
It's concerning to me that any time we have witnesses scheduled and particularly when it's veterans.... They're given a very short period of time. To schedule that kind of committee business situation and cut into their time should only be done where it's absolutely necessary.
I would ask that you, as chair, commit to having a conversation with, at minimum, the vice-chairs of the committee and, ideally, the members of the steering committee in the future before making such a decision, to determine whether that is, in fact, a reasonable incursion on witness time.
I'll ask if you could commit to having those conversations in the future, prior to cutting into witness time.