Thank you.
There were no opening statements by the witnesses. As I had indicated, there were none.
When a member asks for an opinion or for a witness to make some statement, that is the member's right. But it came off her question-and-answer time. And although the witness did go beyond the one minute, we don't cut witnesses off when the time is up. We certainly will give them the prompt to complete. You cannot simply stop a witness in the middle of an important answer, but certainly a member of the committee cannot keep asking a question right past the time limit for that. That's the explanation you asked for.
Now, the second point of order—