Chair, sorry, I want to start with a point of order. The point of order has to do with the schedule for today. I must admit, when I received the schedule a week and a bit ago, I was very concerned to see that the committee business had actually been constrained to resuming debate on the motion by the Honourable Wayne Easter, moved on March 10, 2011. The reason I say this is because having been on committees for five years, I have never seen that type of constraint placed upon committee business right at the start of a meeting.
What I have seen in the past is debate on motions during a particular meeting, and when that meeting comes to an end, if there was no vote called, if the debate just ended because the meeting had to be adjourned, because it was the end of the meeting, we all went our ways and when we came back we started with a new schedule. The new schedule might list committee business, but it did not force or constrain the committee to go back to the business that was being discussed at the previous meeting. Every meeting is a new meeting. So this is somewhat alarming to me.
I'd like to know where this came from. Where did this exact wording come from, “resuming debate on the motion”? Did it come from you? Did it come from the clerk?
The other thing I'd like to state is that we're in the middle of a study, Chair--