Before I go to the question and answer section, I want to provide members of the committee with a few comments on how committees proceed with clause-by-clause consideration of a bill.
As the term indicates, this is an examination of all the clauses in a bill in the order in which they appear in the bill. We go in order; we don't jump. We go clause by clause, starting with the first clause and moving onward.
I will call each clause successively, and each clause is subject to debate, a vote and/or an amendment. If there is an amendment to the clause in question, I will recognize the member proposing it, who may explain it. The amendment will then be open for debate. When there are no further members who wish to intervene, as in all debates, the amendment will be voted on.
Amendments will be considered in the order in which they appear in the package each member received from the clerk. Each amendment has been given a number in the top right-hand corner, if you look at your amendments package, to indicate which party submitted it.
During debate on an amendment, members are permitted to move subamendments. Only one subamendment may be considered at a time.
All of you have your papers in front of you so you can follow along through this, so I'm going to begin now.
Let's go to questions and answers before we go to clause-by-clause. I just wanted to let you prep all your papers in front of you for when we get to that point, so you're ready to go.
We're going to do one round of questioning with six minutes for each party, and I will begin with Mr. Mazier for the Conservatives.
You have six minutes, please.