Chair, through you, we've seen that many times at this committee. It's common practice at other committees. This would allow for ministers to be asked questions—in fact, ministers whose files overlap as well—instead of having a situation in which questions are asked but aren't answered because the relevant minister isn't present. One might be asked a question but their file doesn't directly relate to the matter that's being put forward. Instead of waiting and delaying to get that answer from the department, the minister can be there in the same panel to take up the issue that's been put on the table, so to speak. I think that's just one reason.
There are other reasons—and it goes back to what I said before as far as other reasons go. The time we would have.... This allows us, as a committee, to take up our responsibilities around the estimates. The way that the original motion was worded, this would eat up a huge amount of time and not really get us to where we need to go as a committee, in terms of carrying out our other obligations to look at other matters.