Finance committee  Sure. There are a few points there. The initial deadline for the tabling of this report came from, I believe, Mr. Poilievre's motion to undertake this study. That was the initial starting point to work from. Nothing else other than that holds the committee to tabling on that date, so it's open to change.

Finance committee  Yes, that's correct. We're just trying to keep to the original schedule that was proposed at that subcommittee meeting. The subcommittee report that was adopted on February 22—in case you want to look it up—stated that the original deadline for recommendations for this study was last Friday, so Friday, March 11.

Finance committee  So if we want to push back the consideration of the recommendations, then we would likely also need to push back the tabling of that report.

Finance committee  I suppose to start, we can be flexible with how long it takes to produce the report, depending on, effectively, the amount of time we're given. If we only have a week, we can make a report work in that week, but it would be very small relative to other years' reports. In general, it takes about a month between drafting, translation, recommendations, the review of those recommendations, and then the review of the report itself.

Finance committee  The clerk is correct. Without knowing what the tabling date of the report is, we can't really provide a timeline of when the last meeting on the PBCs should take place, but at any point up until that date, we can continue to receive evidence, written or oral, with respect to the PBCs.