Potentially. Unless the committee wishes to get down into this, I don't see (a), (b), (c) and (d) as a ranking of witnesses or a tiered list of witnesses. The Chief Electoral Officer, I imagine, will be here multiple times in our months on various studies, since that is a priority of this committee and under the jurisdiction of the committee.
In terms of closeness, we don't know. Again, we're asking people to appear and just being cognizant of the fact that it is June and that people do plan vacations and have to plan for taking care of kids or whatnot, or any of those items, so they may or may not be available. There's the fact that the witnesses you may seek are from Quebec and are close. They may wish to come down to Ottawa and can appear quickly. Please provide us with those names. We will endeavour to see those, but Mr. Melillo may know someone from Kenora who wishes to testify, and that may be a more difficult journey.
We will do our best. In my experience, when we're embarking on a study, we're not usually right up against the end of the session. We have time to work things in. I know that the clerk, who is a very experienced clerk, will do her best to get those witnesses, but please provide those names to us.
Madame Normandin.