Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I believe your microphone is on mute.

Government Operations committee  Minister Anand, I believe your microphone is muted.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Weiler, I apologize for intervening, but I have received a message from the interpreters. They're having a lot of difficulty hearing you. Is it possible for you to hold the microphone closer to your mouth when you speak?

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately not. There are only about 10 seconds left.

Government Operations committee  If I may, Monsieur Drouin, it will be Mr. McCauley leading off for the Conservatives, according to the list I have.

Government Operations committee  Did you give notice of this?

Government Operations committee  That may be a confusion. Possibly they mean the supplementary estimates by March 26, or do you mean the main estimates?

Government Operations committee  [Inaudible—Editor] standing order.

Government Operations committee  Public committee meetings are broadcast live. They're being broadcast right now.

Government Operations committee  We have, I think, four votes that are referred to OGGO

Government Operations committee  Right now. Supplementary estimates (B) have been referred to the committee already. They're before the committee, and the committee can start its study whenever it wants.

Government Operations committee  The supplementary estimates are referred to the committee until three days before the last allotted day in the period, or three days before the last sitting day in the period. The reason is that it's dependent upon when the last allotted day is decided. Unfortunately, we don't kn

Government Operations committee  On that point, we've had some discussions in our offices with my colleagues on that. I think we've arrived a fairly common sense consensus. The committee, first of all, can give any instruction it wants to us, the clerks, as to what we're going to put in the minutes. We have a

Government Operations committee  That was the one they dealt with already.

Government Operations committee  No. We're done, actually.