Thank you.
I would be hard pressed to accept an amendment to cut down on the time available to a member of the NDP to question witnesses and participate in the discussion at the committee. Allocations have traditionally been made to parties and not to individual members. That can account for a long tradition in committees in how time is allocated for the questioning of witnesses. I don't necessarily buy the argument that it needs to be balanced according to individual members, but I think it needs to be balanced or related to party participation in Parliament.
I'd like to make an amendment that the proposal for round two be replaced in Mr. Anderson's motion to go to round two, round three, and round four, as the committee adopted in the last Parliament. Further, I think that arrangement served the committee well in the last Parliament, so I recommend sticking with the status quo and getting on with the work of the committee in that fashion.