Thank you.
This is on the time for opening remarks and the questioning of witnesses.
The motion reads, “That witnesses be given five minutes for their opening statements; that whenever possible, witnesses provide the committee with their opening statements 72 hours in advance; that, at the direction of the Chair, during the questioning of witnesses, there be allocated six minutes in round one for the first questioner from the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois; that for the second and subsequent rounds, the order and time for questioning be as follows: Conservative Party, five minutes; Liberal Party, five minutes; Bloc Québécois, two and a half minutes; Conservative Party, five minutes; Liberal Party, five minutes.”