I will take a moment to express the Chair's dilemma.
We have a topic of great importance. Many members, on both sides of the House, from all parties, have already indicated they wanted to take part in this debate. If we are going to share our 20 minute speaking time, and break it down into two 10 minute periods, each followed by a 5 minute question and comment period, I would ask all the speakers from all parties to keep their questions simple, direct and short, so that the member who just delivered his or her speech can give a proper answer. Everybody should keep this in mind. And I hope that we can proceed in this fashion.
I give the floor to the hon. member for Joliette.