I hope that the clerk can provide you a reference on how to acknowledge points of order, Chair.
This was, as you acknowledged in your opening remarks, the resumption of the 13th meeting of this committee. We suspended at our last meeting, and that means there was an item under consideration, which was a programming motion on this committee's work. I realize we had to elect a new chair, and I congratulate you on winning that race. However, there is precedent. If you consult the previous ruling from the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development meeting of May 16, 2022, the election of a chair does not constitute a substantive motion; thus, after the chair is elected, the previous matters of business continue.
The dilatory motion that Mr. Housefather moved and that we voted on was out of order. We are still on the programming motion introduced at the last meeting. There is precedent to that effect, pursuant to the rules of this committee, and under that I would have the floor as I did when the meeting was suspended.