I call the meeting back to order.
Thank you for your patience, especially our witnesses. I apologize for all of this and what's happening.
On the question raised by MP Noormohamed, I would like to provide exactly what that Simms protocol says:
A. The Simms Protocol—Interventions When a Member has the Floor
At its 55th meeting, on 21 March 2017, the Committee developed a convention allowing a member to raise a question or comment related to the topic immediately at hand, without the speaker formally ceding the floor or losing his or her place on the list of speakers. Once the intervention is concluded, the speaker once again has the floor and the existing list of speakers continues unimpeded. It is up to the member who has the floor, along with the Chair, to decide whether to permit the intervention. The original speaker may also take back the floor at any time and resume speaking. The Committee named this convention the Simms protocol, after Mr. Scott Simms, member for Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, who first employed this convention at the meeting on 21 March 2017.
Based on this, I will ask Mr. Ho if he would allow what MP Noormohamed said about questioning.