Thank you for that question.
I did not include this in my motion because I'm a government member and most of the committees are government members, and I did not want this to be seen as being imposed on the opposition parties. I personally think the principle would apply equally. That said, if the committee feels that would be too big a change, and if the committee cannot get unanimous support for that concept, my advice to the committee would be to leave that out of your recommendations.
I think the principle is the same. I think there is no logical argument to separate one from the other, but I do understand the sensitivity that smaller parties have and their concern that something might be imposed upon them by the larger parties.
I don't think that a change like this really can or should go through the House of Commons with a majority-plus-one vote. I think it would need a substantive majority. I'm not setting a particular number to it, but if we're going to do this, more than one party has to support it, and it has to be a substantive majority of the House.