While the clerk is handing out the routine motions—I think that's the next order of business—I want to say thank you for your confidence.
I will say, we'll get to know each other very quickly, I'm sure. The way I see committees is that committees are animals unto themselves. They report only to Parliament and by extension serve the people of Canada and not a minister or ministry.
When it comes to the rules of the committee, I will apply them as fairly as I possibly can. We will start as close to being on time as we can and we'll only go over if there's unanimous consent to do so, respecting the time of the committee.
That gives you an idea of how I expect to run the committee and hopefully respect everyone's views around the table in due course.
Everyone has the routine motions. I guess these are the customary motions that were adopted by this committee in the last session.
Would we entertain a motion to accept them the way they are, or do we have to go through each one individually? If you would be prepared to, we would accept the motion to accept them as is. If not, we'd open it up to debate.
Let's start them one at a time, then, if you would like. Or do we want to just open it up to debate and then see whether we can change it?
Go ahead, Thomas.