Thank you, Chair.
This item has been the object of some consultation, both on our side and across the table with members opposite. The proposal we would like to make is that we adjust the first round of seven minutes each to read as follows: Conservative, NDP, Conservative, and Liberal; secondly, that the second round of five minutes each be adjusted to read NDP, Conservative, NDP, Conservative, NDP, Conservative, and Conservative.
That would allow for each member of this committee to speak once in either the first or second round in each round of questioning of witnesses, and it would, as closely as possible, reflect the new distribution of weight by party in the House of Commons.