Mr. Chair, I'd like to see what we did in the last committee in the rounds of questioning, which I think worked pretty well.
With good time management, in most cases we were able to get multiple rounds in. The first round was seven minutes. Sometimes it went over, but mostly it was seven minutes. Round one was typically the Liberal Party, the Bloc, New Democratic Party, and then the Conservative Party. All other rounds after that were five minutes. The second round was the Liberal Party, the Bloc, and the Conservatives. The third round was Liberal, Conservative, Liberal, and then Conservative. And then in round four we went to the full parties again: the Liberal Party, Bloc, New Democratic, and Conservative Party.
I think that allowed a fair distribution for all the committee members to participate—split their time, if that was the case. But the first round being seven minutes allowed the party in its first round to get a good chance.
When you look at that in an hour-and-a-half meeting, the Conservatives and the Liberals ended up with almost 30 minutes each, and the Bloc and the NDP ended up with almost 20 minutes each. I think that was a pretty fair distribution.