Thank you very much, Mr. Pagan.
Thank you, Minister, for your presentation. Before we turn it over to questions and answers, perhaps you'll permit me to make an observation or two.
I haven't been in Parliament as long as you, Minister. Outside of you, however, I believe I'm the longest-serving parliamentarian at this table. I agree with your assessment that the budgetary process, in terms of parliamentary oversight, has been, in my view at least, and I've been saying this for well over 12 years, almost a bit of a joke. We simply didn't have the ability to delve into the numbers effectively and to give the scrutiny that we have been charged with doing. I applaud you in your efforts to try to simplify this and try to streamline the process so that all parliamentarians at least have an opportunity to observe and make comment on a literally multibillion-dollar functioning of Parliament. I applaud you on that.
My question for you is this. In the last Parliament, I was charged with the review of the Standing Orders. As you know, each year a new Parliament sits, there is a finite period of time for Standing Orders to be reviewed. As a matter of fact, there was a debate in Parliament just a week or so ago when we were on the road.
The approach I took with the all-party committee studying changes to the Standing Orders—we made a few minor ones—was that I suggested we needed unanimity to make sure, since Standing Orders are really the backbone of what we do and how we operate in this institution.
Have you, Minister, considered Standing Order changes requiring unanimous consent, or exactly how did you plan to approach that?