Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the motion that identifies and sets the time for the questioning of witnesses, it talks about how in the first round there will be six minutes for each of the recognized parties. It says after that, “For the second and subsequent rounds, the order and time for questioning be as follows”, and it outlines that it would be five minutes for the Conservative Party, five minutes for the Liberal Party, two and a half minutes for the Bloc Québécois, two and a half minutes for the NDP, five minutes for the Conservative Party and five minutes for the Liberal Party.
Where this would change is if you change the panels. You would start new with round one, and each party would get six minutes in the first round.
That is my understanding of how we interpret the motion. It does rest at the discretion of the chair, but that is the way the motion was adopted by the committee.