I don't necessarily object to that in that circumstance. In this context, I'd like to ask two questions. First, the minister himself said--I thought--it was going to be two hours, and I was told it was only going to be one. That surprised me, because my understanding was that we ask for two, and the ministers generally say, no, they can only come for one. I don't know why on earth we would not have had the minister for two hours. If the minister was prepared to come for two hours, I certainly would have preferred to have the minister for two hours. That's one point. In that sense, this discussion would be moot.
Second, I thought we had also had a discussion about dispensing with opening statements. I was also a little bit surprised to hear an opening statement. It's not that it wasn't enlightening. I want to get that clarified, because it is part and parcel of what we're trying to accomplish with this.