Natural Resources committee  If I understand correctly, I am to divide the meeting into two. Is that right? You will hear from experts on nuclear energy in the first hour, and representatives from the department in the second.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I can invite people in the department to decide who should appear. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is a Crown corporation. So it comes under the department. If the department thinks that AECL is the most appropriate group to represent it, it will ask for AECL representatives to be sent to testify.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. At the moment, no, there is no other invitation. The committee did not instruct me to invite a government representative on nuclear matters. I act according to the will of the committee. If it decides that it will hold another session with departmental representatives, I am at its disposal.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Vice-Chair, after the week's break, we will be receiving the witnesses who were added as a result of your letter to the chair. This will be the last session at which witnesses will appear, because after that, we will be moving on to the draft report. If we add more witnesses, the draft report will be pushed back until later.

Natural Resources committee  At the moment, Mr. Chair, we have one person confirmed, with the possibility of another, from the department, as requested by the Bloc. What we can do is to have those two in the first hour and someone from the department in the second hour, or we can do a full session on May 30, if that's what the committee wants to do.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, I've just been informed today that the Minister will not be available on May 2. Other possible dates have been suggested and I've been in touch with the Chair's office. As you can see, the Chair is not here today. I will run the suggested dates by him and he'll get back to you.

Natural Resources committee  I'm sure Jean-Luc could probably answer that a little bit better in terms of his conversations with them. In the invitation, they were given essentially what you saw on the agenda for today. They were given the pretty general theme of this study and the more specific theme of hydro-electricity and its future role and future potential.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, the NPCC is confirmed for Wednesday.

Natural Resources committee  I just this minute received it.

Natural Resources committee  It's approximately a three-hour flight.

Natural Resources committee  Again, a lot of the details have to be—

Natural Resources committee  The only problem I think we would have with your request, Mr. St. Amand, through the chair, would be that we've already adopted the motion to only travel the one day. We've received the House order from the whips to only travel the one day. The budget that was adopted by the Liaison Committee was for the one day.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The motion is simply....

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  But the discussion will be taking place in public. So the actual document is embargoed, but the discussion is going to take place in public. That's the only caveat I wanted to let everyone know.