Public Accounts committee  The chair is not in town.

Public Accounts committee  The clerk doesn't schedule the meeting. The clerk calls the meeting after being ordered by the chair.

Public Accounts committee  I got this on Thursday.

Public Accounts committee  The 48 hours does not apply to that. It's a request. It does not.

Public Accounts committee  No. I received an e-mail from Mr. Pratte yesterday, and today I confirmed that he had ten days to reply, and he told me he would do that by next Friday.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I've been in contact with two of the witnesses, although not the third; nobody knows where he is. I received the first answer this morning. It was negative. I'm waiting for the second one.

Public Accounts committee  Correct.

Public Accounts committee  Yes--

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I can do that.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I have contacted all my contacts—the RCMP, Public Works, and other contacts—to try to locate Mr. David Smith and there have not been any positive results. Nobody seems to know where he is. I'm still looking.

Public Accounts committee  With your permission, Mr. Chair, I've got two kinds of answers. The first one is that they don't know where he is. The second answer is that since he doesn't work with them, or he has no contract with them, they really can't tell me where he is because it's a privacy matter.

Public Accounts committee  One page was given out.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I made a call to the RCMP contact person informing them that this request had been made. They are looking into it.