The fourth motion concerns the time for opening remarks and questioning of witnesses:
That witnesses be given five to seven minutes to make their opening statement; that, at the discretion of the Chair, during questioning of witnesses, there be allocated six minutes for the first questioner of each party as follows: for the first round of questioning: Conservative Party, Liberal Party, Bloc Québécois, New Democratic Party; for the second and subsequent rounds of questioning, the order and time for questioning be as follows: five minutes to a representative of the Conservative Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, Liberal Party and two and a half minutes to a representative of the Bloc Québécois and the New Democratic Party.