Chair, it's a bit of a red herring, the rules of the industry committee, and I will take some responsibility for having changed them several years ago. In fact, this was done in 2006 to permit at the time an independent member of the committee to ask questions. This is all part of the consensus building my party attempted certainly in the first minority government of the Conservative Party. Those may not work, depending on the timing, and might not give additional time rightfully to opposition questions.
But they are certainly different. They are a different creature and animal. The change, which was done for very specific reasons in 2006, has now since changed. My understanding is that they were adopted. I sit on the current industry committee and it has the same rules that applied before. We may want to have a look at them, because we don't really have an idea of the timing when the witnesses will be allowed to appear. If we're talking an hour, it may advantage the opposition; if it's an hour and a half, it advantages the government.
I know that we want to achieve consensus here if we can, but we also want to make sure that we operate by rules that are relatively similar to those of most committees. That probably would not include the industry committee.