Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I'm going to take a moment to again be absolutely as crystal clear as I can possibly be on my behalf and on behalf of my caucus and party. The process left a bit to be desired. I have held the government to account as best I can—repeatedly, forcefully and legitimately, I believe.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Minister. It's good to see you again. You're right that we've been around this a few times. I have to tell you that I even leaned over to Tyler and said, “I'm running out of questions,” because we have gone around a lot of times. I will reiterate, because it needs to be said, that the only thing on which I agree with my colleagues from the Conservative caucus is that the process was ham-fisted.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I can win, I'll take a vote now.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  How much time does that give me, Chair? I can't see the face of the clock.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's what I thought. I'll take this opportunity. I appreciate that. I only asked for the floor so that I can formally move my motion: “That the Committee study the following proposed changes to the Standing Orders and report back to the House”. The attached documents with the details of those changes have been circulated in both languages.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's very good. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You keep saying “noted”. I assume that “noted” is your word for yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have a quick question that I promised my daughter I would ask. I was going to do it quietly, but I'll do it publicly. I think I know the answer, but I'm going to ask anyway. Are there any plans to reintroduce the cat world that existed prior to West Block's being closed? I confess that walking over to see the cats was her favourite part of coming to Parliament Hill.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There you go. See?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I didn't think so, but it would be really cool if there were. I leave that out there. Maybe there are some creative folks. I have two things, one point and then a question. The point is that I really appreciated knowing for the first time how you're looking at the parliamentary precinct differently.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I still didn't hear an answer. If there's still some flexibility about the size of it, how can you start digging the hole? That's all. How can you know how big a hole to dig until you know the size? You're telling me the size is flexible, yet we're going ahead and starting digging.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're getting.... Go ahead.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let me just try to repeat that in my words and see if I've got it.