I can understand where the member is coming from, but I would disagree. That hasn't occurred in any other committee, and as the member said, it hasn't been abused. But I think the purpose of it is that when you're discussing whatever issue you're discussing, all sorts of motions come up, amendments, subamendments. So you have to be able to make motions while you're discussing a topic and you can't wait 48 hours for all these motions every time you want to have a discussion. You can't break the discussion, stop the committee meeting, wait for 48 hours, and then discuss again. So I think you have to be able to make amendments and subamendments while you're discussing something. That's why it has always been like this in all the committees.
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