I'm sorry, Chair. It's about the need for the motion.
I'm sorry that this motion is necessary, but it has become quite evident over the past couple of months, with these unexpected meetings that happen during constituency weeks, that we need a program. We need a plan, so that we can be prepared. We need to know who the witnesses are and when they're coming, so that we can prepare and so that we have some good, valid, relevant questions. That's what we're trying to accomplish here, Mr. Chair.
I think that this plan...and we need to stick to it. By passing this motion, we need to say that this is our work plan, and we won't be altering it. The witnesses will be lined up, and we won't be having any extra things added on that are going to disrupt this work program, because we have reports that we need to table and get done, so that we look like we're effectively conducting the work that we're elected to do. We need to get on with it.
Our wish is that this brings some structure and clarity, which I feel has been missing with all these additional things that have disrupted and pushed our reports back so that we don't get things tabled in the House. It's just so that we have some structure and advance knowledge of what's coming up and who the witnesses will be, so that we can proceed on an ongoing basis.