Thank you very much for being here, Mr. Stewart. I want to congratulate you on doing what you can to bring Parliament, kicking and screaming, into the new millennium. It seems to me it's an obvious thing. This is not a question of whether this is going to happen; it's really a question of when and what it will look like.
They couldn't quite get there in 2003. They started to define it, but they couldn't bring themselves.... I don't know whether this is the time or not, but one would hope. But that time is coming and quite frankly, the whole aspect of how we do business will be analyzed over a very short period of time, I think, as we go through this transition period from sort of the old world to the new world.
I want to go straight to something that I have to get past. Right now, 100,000 signatures and 10 MPs can command the floor of the Canadian House of Commons for three hours. Is a take-note debate three hours?