Yes, Mr. Chairman. I'm sorry, but I'm going to register a little bit of a complaint.
In the first round—and we've talked about this before—you scheduled three witnesses who talked for 30 minutes, and you brought the gavel down with about four minutes left to go. The result of that first round was that the Conservatives had 14 minutes of time and we had seven and so did the Liberals. I've raised this before. We have 101 seats in the House of Commons, and the Liberals have 35; we have four members and they have one. It is completely unfair to have the opposition being limited to the same amount of time.
With the greatest of respect to Mr. Easter—this is certainly not his doing—I would ask that you don't schedule three witnesses, or if you do, that you cut down their initial speech from 10 minutes to eight minutes. Certainly, if the Conservatives were in our position, I would support the same thing. We want to make sure that we have proportionate time with the witnesses. That first round was a classic example of how we lost two-thirds of our time, and that's unfair.