Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Davies for your intervention.
You're correct. The routine motions are not identical to how they were last time. I think we both experienced in various committees in the previous Parliament the time constraints involved with doing things semi-virtually or in a hybrid format occasionally, with the delays with witnesses or with other members of this committee; hence, somebody was tasked with identifying how to move forward, use the time allotted and not go terribly over.
I think we can all agree that we have a friendly chair and somebody has to be given the discretion as to how to divide time when we have limited time, so I would ask that we, in good faith, keep the routine motions as such.
As you said, if we find that a grave miscarriage of justice by the chair has occurred, we can come back and revisit them at another time. I think appealing to the chair's good judgment in cases where he does have to make a call would be prudent.