Finance committee  Mr. Julian moves “that the meeting be extended to continue the questioning of witnesses until six o'clock.” Is that right?

Finance committee  Do you want me to do it, or would you like the...?

Finance committee  As I informed the chair before the meeting, the cut-off time before the committee starts impacting other committees that sit later tonight is six o'clock. If we go later, the whips will have to decide which committee is not meeting tonight.

Finance committee  There is no room next week for additional meetings whatsoever. I tried on Monday. The status of women committee already took the spot that was available Monday evening, so there's no more room on Monday. I looked at the services and I asked my management and there's simply no room next week for additional meetings at any time.

Finance committee  As an update, I don't know how long this is going to take.

Finance committee  I can double-check and get back to you shortly.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, let's see if we can continue. Let me know if we get more issues.

Finance committee  IT is advised and they are looking into it right now.

Finance committee  My apologies, Mr. Chair. We're still looking into it. The ITs are looking into it. The problem appears to be on our end. They're muting and unmuting the room to see if solves the problem or not. They're still working on it. They're going to give me a heads-up as soon as we can start.

Finance committee  We had a three-hour meeting with two panels, and all of the witnesses except for the Conservative witnesses have accepted. The panels are all full, except for the four spots reserved for the Conservatives. One of the spots was for the Fraser Institute, which hasn't responded yet.

Finance committee  Yes. The way it works is that during a one-and-a-half-hour panel we have six witnesses—two Liberals, two Conservatives, one Bloc and one NDP. That means that in a three-hour panel, we have four witnesses for the Conservatives, and they're per organization, not per person. We had the Fraser Institute, which is one, but you still have three, so we can have the CMHC, which is one, and then Generation Squeeze, which is the third, and Watershed Partners, which is the fourth.

Finance committee  I would have to check with the services to see what the hard stop is. I would assume 6:30, but I need to talk to them first.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Dzerowicz. The only thing I wanted to say was that we can no longer have any extensions of our committee meetings, which means that we will not be able to have three-hour meetings in the future, just because the Senate has started sitting. I informed the chair about this.

Finance committee  The email didn't give a specific reason, but the witness did say he would like to wait until the budget came out to have more content for his presentation.

Finance committee  Yes. We received it in English only. I would encourage Ms. Morton to just read it into the record. If she doesn't want to, we can have it translated. I can distribute it to the committee as soon as we get it back.