This will be my fifth Parliament. I've sat on all those seats over there, sat in the first three up here, sat in that seat, sat down in those seats. This is the first time in this seat, but, like they say, there's not a bad seat in the House. I'll grow into this role, I'm sure.
But as was mentioned before—and it's in our hands anyway, we can do as we please as a committee—traditionally the official opposition does start off the first round of questioning. I look back at my first Parliament, the 37th Parliament, where we had the Bloc, and, before the merger, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives. In the first round there was a full seven minutes given to each. The rotation would have been Canadian Alliance, Bloc, Liberal, NDP, Progressive Conservative. Everybody was included in the first round.
I think the official opposition should probably start the first round, and then the government after that. The seven minutes for the first round makes sense. In any committee work that I've done to date seven minutes works best.
From our perspective, I'm hoping there's some generosity on the part of those around today. If we might be able to get included in the first round that would be great, but certainly we would hope to be included by the second round anyway.