Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I move that committee motion 1-13(5) be amended by deleting the words "a maximum of four questions to each of the remaining Ministers, after questions to Mr. Kakfwi are concluded" and inserting the words "to ask one question at a time, on a rotating basis, until there are no further questions or a maximum of one hour has lapsed; and further that this process begin after questions to Mr. Kakfwi are concluded". Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I speak to the motion and the amendment?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would prefer to speak to the motion later.

Mr. Chairman. I think that was a good observation you made, that this place is empty most of the

time. Mr. Chairman, we agreed as well, and we knew from the outset, two days we would commit to this process. There is a two day deadline if you want to talk about changing the rules, that is one thing. We also knew that when we agreed to all the time allotments, if you added them all up and everybody used all their time, which everybody poo pooed, there would have been 55 hours plus. If you did an average it would be 27 hours plus. We are on the horns of a dilemma. How do we compress time? Einstein could not figure it out. I do not know if we are going to be able to. I do not really care at this point, how long it takes as long as we finish today. I am not interested, nor will I support extending this thing pass tomorrow. That is the one thing we committed to and all agreed to. Two days, that is it. If we want to stay all night, I am more than willing to do that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When the motion first came up, the amendment, I thought of supporting it but there was so much discussion on this, and how the process should follow. I think we will be doing ourselves a disservice from swallowing our own medicine. We wrote the prescription, we should take the medicine. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, will not be supporting the amendment. I feel if we started a process, there are rules that were set. We allow ourselves the time, if it takes a lot longer than expected, then so be it. For the public and the people we represent and to this Cabinet, that when we elected them to their positions, that basically this review was in the works, two years ago. It is not something that we just dreamt up. This is something we basically agreed was going to happen to make Cabinet and the Premier accountable not only to ourselves, as Members of this House, but the people we represent. I think we have to allow the process to continue as it was laid out. If it means going all night, so be it. Let us do it. We allow the speaker the flexibility to basically set the time to be allowed, so that we could conclude this procedure. I will not be supporting the amendment.

It could very well be, Mr. Chairman, however, I think in the interest of time I have made this amendment because I foresee that it will be a very long night and Members have to judge that for themselves. I did see how it went for the last two days and I must say, at times, there were two of us in here to ask Ministers questions. If that is the kind of interest we are going to show, then I am sorry. I want to express my concern about the length of time this is going to take. We have to be dedicated to this, and if we are going to sit here and keep our Ministers here, and there is going to be one person sitting here asking the Minister and one Minister back and forth, I think there needs to be a lot more interest in this process and I appreciate the Members have a lot of questions, I do too. As time goes, I will get my questions answered if I cannot get them answered here because we do have the process tomorrow to go into as well. Let the vote fall where it may. Mr. Chairman, I have done this on a basis of trying to bring some order to this system. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I will not be supporting this motion. Along with the other Members, I knew coming in here there was no way we could fit 27 hours into two days. It did not even make good arithmetic. We knew before we got here, this thing is going to drag on for more than two days. If we are reasonable people. I would support a motion to report progress after we are finished with Mr. Antoine tonight. We can carry on tomorrow. We have stopped working for us and I, for one, cannot see where it becomes unreasonable sitting here until one or two o'clock in the morning, just to prove a point. We are going to wake up the dead. I think by one or two in the morning we just might as well call it quits because none of us are going to be asking reasonable questions and even tempers may start running short and it may be hard to control the meeting. I suggest we act like reasonable people and shut it down after two more Ministers. Thank you.