I will not go back over Mr. Lake's comments but I do want to touch on an important element. Many witnesses will probably have already submitted documents to many MPs, but there may be others who have not. We might also be receiving voluminous and fact-filled briefs. We must take the time to read them through and through and do our own analysis and work correctly in order to ask the right questions of our witnesses.
Therefore, I will reiterate some of the positions that have already been taken and which appear to have unanimous support on this side: three witnesses, five minutes per witness, a first round of questions of seven minutes and a second of five. But I would like to add that, for the five-minute rounds, the order of questions by members be the same as that in the seven-minute round: opposition parties before the government.