Government Operations committee  Correct.

Government Operations committee  There are reports from the policy field committees and then there are just votes; there is no debate.

Government Operations committee  I don't recall that happening in advance. What often transpires, though, is that near the end of the three hours, members may want to read into the record a number of questions for the minister, and instead of taking up time the minister will undertake to provide responses in wri

Government Operations committee  We don't have any experience with that kind of situation so I can't comment on that.

Government Operations committee  They can't be reduced to zero, but they can be reduced to one dollar, in theory.

Government Operations committee  Again, we don't have any experience with respect to minority parliaments, so I can't really comment with any expertise on that.

Government Operations committee  We just had an election here two weeks ago, so we have a new official opposition. We're in a new legislature, so I can't really say for certain. Perhaps Dr. Massolin has comments on that. I do think that the policy field committee consideration of estimates is more effective, j

Government Operations committee  We're anticipating some changes with this new legislature. Again, we just had an election two weeks ago. We have a new official opposition, so there may be some desire to bring forward changes to the standing orders.

Government Operations committee  Yes, they would be regarding the rules governing the consideration, etc....

Government Operations committee  I'll just read them into the record. Right now they are: the Standing Committee on Community Development, the Standing Committee on Education, the Standing Committee on Energy, the Standing Committee on Finance, and the Standing Committee on Public Health and Safety.

Government Operations committee  It's the same three hours.

Government Operations committee  It is two hours in the case of the executive council.

Government Operations committee  That's correct, unless they run out of speakers.

Government Operations committee  Under our standing orders, ultimately the government House leader is responsible for that schedule. I do understand it's very difficult to schedule the different ministers. In the last number of years when we've had this process in place, I recall only one or two ministers not be

Government Operations committee  That's correct.