Mr. Chair, last week, I announced the following order, but I did not propose it formally. The order of questioning for the first round would be the following: government party members, official opposition members, government party members, third party members. In the second round, questions would be asked in turn by government party members and official opposition members in the following order: government party, official opposition, government party, official opposition, government party, official opposition, government party. The principle is to give all the members an opportunity to question the witnesses. In the remainder of the time, the next series of questions would follow the speaking order of the first two rounds, at the discretion of the chair. That's what I told the committee.
The amendment I will move today takes into account the discussions I have been listening to over the last three meetings, but I will make a small change, which affects only the first round. Rather than proceeding with the government party, the official opposition, the government party and the third party, we would have the official opposition, which would go first, followed by the government party, then the third party and, to wrap things up, the government party. That would be the procedure in the first round, and the second round would be exactly as I set it out.