—and then we can jump ahead to another motion, if the committee tends to agree.
The second point I'd like to bring up, though, is the number of motions. This is one of the things that might have frustrated Mr. Atamanenko, that this committee deals with a lot of motions. I find we work very well together as a committee when we're working on a study. When motions come forward, they tend to be fairly confrontational and they take a long time to get through, and they tend to obstruct the work of the committee in some sense. I think Mr. Atamanenko suffered from that. He ran out of time in having his bill studied by committee, because there were all of these opposition motions before the committee.
And the motions are not necessarily useful, Chair. For example, we just set the schedule. We just had a good discussion on the schedule and voted on it. The schedule is intact, and yet a lot of these motions now talk about changing the schedule—