Mr. Minister, as I had indicated earlier, the practice with regard to having someone who is not a permanent member of the committee speak is conditional on a couple of things: either it has the approval of the committee or no other permanent member wishes to speak. That is with regard to getting on the list to debate a motion. My hesitation, sir, was with regard to the fact that you are not asking to debate but you are raising a point of order.
Respectfully, I can't cite a precedent or a rule with regard to points of order, so it calls for the chair to make a decision. My view is that, for the reason I gave earlier, if you had a large number of people come into the room who wanted to make points of order ad nauseam, the committee could in fact be frustrated in doing its workâit's not you, sir, and it's not the fact that you want to make a point of order, but it's the practice and it would be inconsistent to allow you to do a point of order.
I'm going to rule.