The first report in the 1st session of the 37th Parliament from the SMIP committee recommended a whole lot of changes that we're all used to today in the process. I'll go through each one of them. It's in the Standing Orders.
The first report said that the candidates for Speaker should be permitted to speak prior to the vote for the speakership—very rational—and that the minister introducing a government bill be permitted to speak to the bill being introduced by way of the introduction of government bills rubric in routine proceedings; that unanswered order paper questions, if requested, be referred to committee after 45 days, a requirement that did not previously exist; that adjournment proceedings, what we now call late shows, be created; that the day be extended by the amount of time it takes us to vote when a deferred recorded division takes place immediately following oral questions. We have all seen that, when the Speaker says after a vote, “It is my duty to inform the House that the time for government orders has been extended by eight minutes.” The report also said that a 30-minute Q and A be added to the time allocation process—