I just want to echo the point you're making, Chair. Again, I will reinforce the point that six hours at the outset, with the committee agreeing to at least two meetings, is sufficient time to go through all those witnesses.
I would just caution the members again on what I said earlier in my opening remarks. My fear is that this is all political posturing. This is all for a political show as opposed to being transparent and being coherent in providing findings for Canadians. This reminds me a lot of another committee that I've been a member of for over two years now, the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, dealing with the invocation of the Emergencies Act. It's ongoing. The world has moved on. We've had one public inquiry done within a year's time, but that committee is still not finished its work because so much time has been taken by political posturing. That does not serve Canadians. That does not serve this Parliament. That is not befitting of our job as members of Parliament.
I really urge the members. I think we have a really cogent plan here—two meetings, a regular schedule, three hours each—that will accommodate the ministers and accommodate the witnesses that Mr. Chong has presented so that we can be focused, we can be transparent, we can ask the relevant questions in the spirit of accountability and we can produce a report that will be of benefit to Canadians.
Thank you.