I think it's always when you move ahead for some change. When I look at it, I've been on committees where they've had a proposed amendment go forward. If you have the chair as neutral so that the chair is not put in a position at some time of having to be partisan at one subcommittee and then coming back to the committee and sitting as a neutral person.... I think it's always better to have that person as a chair, to be the chair, and then have the parties, including the government, represented by a member of the committee.
So I think it's actually good for the committee in terms of not only how it will work, but for the perception of how it should work to the general public and to those who listen, of how a committee should be struck.
I would be supporting the amendment. I think it gives the chair the opportunity to be neutral as chair at both the subcommittee and the legislative committees.