From my take on things, Mr. Chair, we have before us a procedural motion that's asking for an extension of 30 days to a private member's bill.
From my time here, the two years that I've spent here, when we're debating procedural motions and bills in the House, such as time allocation or time extension, government members often take to the floor and don't speak about the procedural motion at hand at all. They refer to the bill that will be debated in the future after the time allocation has been imposed, but the Speaker of the House tends not to limit the comments of members during those types of procedural debates simply to the procedure at hand.
I'm hoping that's not the case here, Mr. Chair, because I do want to speak not only about the procedure but also about the scope of the bill. I know from what I've heard in the past half hour that I've been here that these kinds of interventions are not welcome on the floor.
I respectfully ask for a little bit, just a little bit of leeway. I know that your duty as chair is to be impartial and non-partisan and to allow members to—