I actually agree with you on the first round, Mr. McKay, that seven minutes should be equal among parties.
In all the committees I've served on since I've been here, which goes back to when we were in opposition in a minority government, the committees of agriculture and environment have had the practice that we are all here as private members, first and foremost, so no member of a committee should get to ask a second question until every member on that committee has had a chance to ask a first question. So I do agree--although it's up to Mr. Alexander if he wants to change it or if somebody wants to move that amendment--that one Conservative in the first round should actually be leading off the second round instead of being in the first round.
I could also say that the way I run my meetings, I don't like to load up with a whole pile of witnesses. I like to have two or three, tops, and that gives more than enough time, because I am very judicious in the way I allocate time. We always get back to a final round, and for whatever time is left on the table, we go back to the first round and split that time evenly among the three parties. That's the way we've always run it so every party has a chance to ask a final question before we move on. That way the Liberals would get a final question before the end of the meeting, so you would have one in the first round and then one in the final round.
With that, we have Mr. Harris, and then Mr. Norlock and Madam Gallant.