Hon. Dan McTeague (Pickering—Scarborough East, Lib.): I appreciate what Ms. McDonough has said, but I certainly wouldn't want to have the committee assume that it, an arm or branch of the House of Commons, could somehow set a deadline that would pre-empt the House of Commons as to what the House of Commons would determine as far as its agenda and its timetable are concerned.
L'hon. Dan McTeague (Pickering—Scarborough-Est, Lib.): Je suis heureux d'entendre les propos de Mme McDonough, mais je ne voudrais certainement pas que le comité suppose, en tant que branche ou organe de la Chambre des communes, qu'il puisse en quelque sorte fixer un délai court-circuitant la Chambre des communes quant à ce qu'elle pourrait décider à propos de son ordre du jour et de son calendrier.