That's correct.
This actually came up last week. I wasn't disappointed or discouraged by it, but I did go and check the rules of order. It's very clear that if one is not signed in.... Because the NDP has one position on this committee, you can have any number sitting at the table, and indeed they can speak. They cannot vote. Only one position can vote, but they can speak, unless there is an objection raised by the committee. It doesn't suggest there--and I've asked our clerk to check it out--whether or not, then, there would be a vote or if the objection itself would be enough to stop it.
My question to the clerk last week was whether I should proceed and question the committee. The book says that they may participate in the public proceedings of any committee of which they are not a member “unless the House or the committee” in question “otherwise orders”. It would have had to be on a protest or on a point of order at that time, and it didn't happen.
And you know, I think that's good. We'll leave that for another time, but I think the committee was very generous to our New Democrats on that side. Hopefully it will continue, but there is not a chance that--