Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I apologize on behalf of all of us for making your job challenging on your first day here with these procedural questions.
I understand the difference between an adjourned meeting and a suspended meeting. I also understand the long-established precedent of the committee that if we're debating an item of business and then we are debating another item of business, we cannot also be debating the original item of business.
Insofar as we are obliged by the rules of the House of Commons to have moved immediately to the selection of a chair, having done that, it is illogical—there may be precedents that can be cited, but it seems illogical to me—to say that something else is still on the floor when we have just completed the election of the chair, which is clearly a distinct item.