I appreciate that it's difficult when some of us are in person and some by Zoom.
We voted as a committee on how this committee would proceed. Yes, of course the chair has some discretion, but we all agreed to this in routine motions at the very beginning of this committee. As Mr. Chong has said, there is a reason why, representative of our numbers in the House, some parties have more people on this committee than others and certain members are given more time than others to ask questions.
I've been on a lot of these committees in different forms, and when a second hour begins, you start again. That's always the way it's been. If the timing is such that not everyone gets time in the first round, that's just the way it is. It doesn't carry over to the next round. Sometimes Conservatives are left behind, sometimes Liberals, sometimes NDP and sometimes Bloc. That's just the way it goes, and that is the way, with respect, Mr. Chair, I think we should proceed.