Yes. There would be two Conservatives at the end to compensate for the fact that they would be apportioned fewer questions earlier in the rounds.
If I could just conclude the motion itself,
based on the principle that each committee member should have a full opportunity to question the witnesses. If time permits, further rounds shall repeat the pattern of the first two at the discretion of the chair.
This is an important point, Mr. Chair, because in the first round you'll notice that questions are apportioned on the basis of one question per party. So if you repeat that, you are giving further weight to opposition MPs, who, despite smaller per-party numbers, would have in that round a number of questions equal to that of the government.
In other words, for example, the NDP member would have in the first round--and potentially later rounds, if we have extra time--one question to himself for the same question that is allotted to all the members on this side, giving a disproportionate advantage to his party and a larger speaking role. However, this imbalance is partly mitigated in the middle rounds, where government members and Liberal members are given more opportunity to intervene due to the greater number of members they have on the committee.
The principle is not that the Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc, or NDP have a particular number of questions. The principle really should be that each one of us is a member of Parliament. We do represent roughly the same populations, and we should have roughly the same voices. It should not be the case that one party, because it is bigger or smaller, is able to accord each individual MP in its caucus greater or less speaking time than the others. That is the basis for and the thinking behind the motion.
I put that forward, and I look forward to discussing it further with other members.