Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to support the motion because it’s for a trial session only and there are other motions here that I will speak to later in regard to laptop usage in committee meetings. My own view on this is because the advent of technology and the BlackBerry-type devices in Committee of the Whole can and should be used by Members to receive e-mails and maybe keep us in the House instead of going back to our offices to check our e-mail. To me, that’s the most important aspect of it. If it ever did come down to a vote, and I think it’s something we should try and I will support the Rules committee on the trial run on laptops, but I don’t think permanently that laptops have any place in the House itself. I could be convinced otherwise about committee meetings, but I guess I am old fashioned in the sense that we are here to work, to speak on behalf of the people we represent, and distractions are distractions whether they are newspapers or computers or whatever. The less amount of distractions we have, the better.

Again, I am going to support the motion, but in the long run, I think with BlackBerries now….Laptops in here is a non-starter for me. Thank you.