Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Gaudreau. That was well anticipated. I suppose that's an improvement, since we would waste five fewer weeks of our time discussing a topic raised for purely partisan purposes and for which there is no basis or evidence in the testimonies we've heard. We would thus cut the wasted time in half, which is an improvement.
Madam Chair, I appreciate Madame Gaudreau's amendment, which is aligned with the discussions that we had to reduce the number of meetings to be dedicated to this study that was put on notice back in February, before the adoption of the budget implementation act, before the passage of the budget and before all of the testimony that we have heard since, including today's uncontradicted testimony from the minister with respect to the existence of the cuts that are the subject of this motion, which now proposes five meetings instead of 10.
If we look at the witnesses who will be invited in the event that this motion passes, and if we look at—