I guess I'm trying to think back to my time in public accounts. It was a long time ago. I'd have to look back at those meetings. In all the other policy-related committees, questioning is typically led by the opposition. That is my experience.
It wouldn't make a big difference to the governing party, because Liberals would get the same number of minutes of questioning as they would under the existing PROC proposal. The only difference is that the opening questioning would be from the official opposition, as is traditionally the case with most committees.
It's not a big change, but I think it's fair-minded, and by far the largest share of questioning minutes would go to the governing caucus, so I would ask that the government consider that approach. It's a very minor modification from the PROC proposal, but one that I think puts us more in line with committee procedure across the various standing committees.
That's my amendment.