Well, with all due respect to the suggestions that have been put forward, I think perhaps Mr. Julian and others have lost track of the reason for this motion. It is to show respect for the witnesses who have in many cases travelled a long way from home and taken time off work or out of their teaching or whatever to come as witnesses before this committee. The last thing they deserve is to sit here in their chairs while motions are being put forward that could go on ad nauseam. I've seen it—everyone has seen it happen in committees we've been on—and it's very embarrassing.
This boils down to a motion that, if you want to pass a motion that will show respect to any witnesses who come before this committee, you will pass. If you don't want to support that show of respect, then you will defeat it.
There is a possible amendment you could make to it. You could make this motion particular to any meeting in which witnesses were present. In any meeting where there were witnesses present, this would apply; where there were no witnesses present, it's possible, because of the purpose of this, that there could be some flexibility, if there were a compromise there.
Certainly I don't want to sit in any more committee meetings in which witnesses are sitting where there are motions coming up, and at which these folks have to sit around watching a bunch of politicians play, in many cases, some pretty stupid games—in front of witnesses who have come here with a good purpose.