I'm not concerned about resources. This was included in the documents. It was raised as something going on that was relevant, but in terms of the benefit of going to something like this, in my own view, we may have overstated the importance of this convention to what we're doing.
With these conventions, if you look at the number of workshops, the concurrent workshops, and these kinds of things, to be able to cover it, people will go there and they'll pick and choose. The committee certainly wouldn't be able to be together. I'm not even sure whether they'll be offering simultaneous translation, etc., and whether members will get the okay.
I don't see this as a major item. It would be useful to have someone there simply to get a sense of who the key people are, what the key issues are, and to be there would be better than just trying to assume it off the web.
Right now, Mr. Easter can't attend. I can't attend. Madam Foote might—I'm not sure. But I don't want to try to make those decisions now, and I'm certainly not going to start playing with how to pair up properly, because it's not going to work. That's why I said, if there were somebody who wanted to go on behalf of the committee, that would certainly be acceptable. If we're going to be concerned about balancing parties and all this other stuff, I would suggest that we just leave it to see if we can have our researchers or a representative from the Library of Parliament be there to garner whatever information is available.
The committee is going to have to make a decision. I'm pretty sure there aren't more than two people in this room right now who really can go, to be quite honest.
We'll go to Mr. Siksay, Mr. Rickford, and then Madame Freeman.