Just to quickly underscore what I was saying earlier, the whole objective, I believe, Madam Chair, is to ensure fairness for all members representing all parties. What I would do, for example, if it looked as though we certainly couldn't get through the entire second round, nor would we get to the third round, is cut it off after both the Conservatives and the Liberals talked. In other words, I wouldn't give the Conservatives an extra question and then say, “We're out of time.” I would try to do everything in my power to ensure we had equal amounts of time for every party, whenever possible.
There will be times, as you well know, Madam Chair, that you may want to have 15 minutes at the end of a meeting for committee business. That will mean we have to truncate the time we have for questions. It's again a discretionary thing that I think we should empower you with, but it's a bit of a leap of faith. I agree with that, but I think that if you have the ability to circumvent and to cut down on the amount of time each round takes to ensure that all questions are asked whenever possible, probably that's the best approach we could take.
Obviously I would hope that the Bloc and the NDP parties would agree to that idea. That approach would be taken to benefit them primarily, more so than the Liberals or the Conservatives.