This may be a final attempt to reach a consensus. In the amendment, we would allow witnesses 10 minutes and ask them to send us their speaking notes 72 hours in advance, if possible. After that, the procedure would remain essentially the same, namely, six minutes to the speakers, in the usual order. In the second round, the only change would be that the Bloc Québécois and the NDP, instead of speaking at the very end with two and a half minutes, could fit in between the Conservatives and Liberals, who would each have five minutes. The Bloc Québécois would then have two and a half minutes and the NDP would have two minutes. The Liberal Party and the Conservative Party would have five minutes each.
This doesn't seem perfectly fair to me, but it's an improvement over the way things are now.