Mr. Speaker, listening to your wise counsel is not a waste of time. I will seek it again. Do not tell me it is a waste of time to listen to you, it is informative.
Mr. Speaker, you are in fact telling us that since you are the one in the Chair today, your situation is similar to that of the minister, in that you are responsible today, and you go by the standing orders. Today is today and yesterday was yesterday. Something happened today concerning the Minister of Veterans Affairs, and I am submitting the issue to you.
We want to know how we should put our questions and we want you to tell us what approach to take, since this is your role. You are at the service of all parliamentarians. Because the question was directed to the Minister for International Trade, you are saying the Chair could deem the question to be out of order because that minister is not the one responsible.
To clarify, today the question directed to the Minister of Human Resources Development was answered by the Minister of Veterans Affairs. I wonder where the logic is; at any rate, that is what happened—