Mr. Bill Blaikie: It seems to me—and maybe this is obvious and doesn't need to be stated—that if we're going to do away with question period, even though the same amount of minutes are added throughout the week onto Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, that any approval of such a scheme would have to be subject to the government House leaders being able to work out a way of allocating those extra minutes in question period, a way that was agreed on by everybody.
M. Bill Blaikie: Il me semble—et peut-être que cela est l'évidence même—que si nous éliminons la période des questions, même si les minutes perdues vont venir s'ajouter au long de la semaine à la période des questions du lundi, du mardi, du mercredi et du jeudi, il faudrait que les leaders parlementaires du gouvernement puissent trouver un moyen d'allouer ces minutes supplémentaires au cours de la période des questions, un moyen sur lequel tous seraient d'accord.