I have further considered the matter and can understand the Member's misunderstanding of whether he did ask a question or not and will not ask the Member to apologize.
I feel, however, that lengthy preambles to oral questions and supplementary questions are the reason that Members forget to ask a question...
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... and illustrates why we do not allow preambles to supplementary questions. I thank you for your attention. Mr. Clerk, item 22, orders of the day.