This may help, Mr. Chairman.
The difference I see is that generally, when a government—this government or any government, I think, in fairness—wants to make sure that a bill passes by a certain day, they have the “deemed passage by 11:59” clause. As much as we may or may not support that, it's a legitimate tool. I don't agree with it, but I can understand it.
The problem here is the first paragraph. It is not necessary to achieve this goal, because this bill's coming out of committee next Thursday. It doesn't matter if we're talking at 11:59. You have that guarantee. What I object to, and what is unusual here, is the ability of the chair to limit debate on each clause to a maximum of five minutes per party. That is not necessary to accomplish the government's goal of getting this bill out of committee on Thursday.
What I would suggest, if Mr. Keddy would consider it, is that we strike the first paragraph and keep the other two paragraphs. Then you get the bill out of committee, but you don't restrict us to a maximum of five minutes per clause.