There are 10 minutes for questions and comments, but there are several members who expressed an interest in asking a question. The parliamentary secretary has already used up two minutes. If I allow a two minute response, that is four minutes, so if he could wrap up in the next few seconds, we could have a response and some other members could participate in the questions and comments period.
In the House of Commons on March 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.