I had my hand up before some of the earlier remarks were made—maybe I'm duplicating things—but this came up in HESA, which I'm also a member of.
With respect to Ms. Blaney's proposal, interestingly enough, Don Davies of the NDP disagreed with that somewhat, saying it's not a hill he wants to die on—and I agree with him—but in some cases five minutes may not be enough for a difficult subject. In questioning, you only get six minutes for questions and answers, and there might be some concepts that take more than five minutes to explain and do a thorough job.
The second thing I'd like to point out is that my predecessor, Don Rusnak, who was on this committee, apparently got quite upset with the fact that when elders came before the committee to give testimony, they were cut off early. This was a sign of disrespect.
In HESA we made it five to 10 minutes, at the discretion of the chair. What we wanted with the five minutes was to get in all the questions and not be cut off early. However, I think there may be times when we want to give them more than five minutes.
I'm not willing to die on this. I don't mind one way or the other.