Personally, I have nothing against that, Mr. Gourde. We simply need to think about it. In the House of Commons, representation isn't really by the minute.
I have been sitting on the committee since 1998. As you know, I used to be entitled to close to four rounds in the debate but, in 2008, I lost one because there were too many of us. For a while, there were only 13 members, but I was still entitled to four rounds. The committee governs its own decisions, as Mr. Lauzon put so well earlier.
I think that this would be a good start for the Standing Committee on Official Languages. We are going to meet our witnesses, and I have no objection to having Mr. Bélanger ask questions. He has contributed a great deal to the official languages file. We hope that things will work as they did the last time, because the committee functioned very well. Honestly, I tip my hat to the committee because we do good work. We need to move in that direction.
We would like there to be four rounds, but there is one party less. So the discussions will go much quicker. We'll certainly gain 20 minutes because of the five minutes that the Bloc Québécois would have had in each round. The Bloc Québécois isn't here any more. So our parties will benefit from that because we'll have additional rounds. The committee is going to meet for two hours and that doesn't mean that there will be only four rounds.