Mr. Chair, I have a point of order. I definitely can't prevent my colleague from speaking until 5:30 p.m. That intention is obvious.
To be more practical today and to be able to say that we've done something instructive in the past few minutes, I ask my colleague to suspend his speech so that we can examine the order of business on the other bills. If the clerk has to call for witnesses, in particular for the study of Bill C-36 and C-269, we'll have to give her the mandate to do so.
We could take the next five minutes to dispose of that.