Mr. Chairman, I just want to make a point of order here.
The issue is not me speaking or not. The issue is that if a minister undertakes, as part of his responsibility, to appear before a committee for a one-hour duration, then the minister should not depart some 45 minutes into that appearance, nor should the chairman short-circuit or abbreviate the proceedings. That is unacceptable, Mr. Chairman, and I would say that the minister should be recalled in order to allow the committee to go ahead and put at least another 15 minutes of questions to him. That would be an appropriate way to establish the proper procedure for this committee to continue.