I don't have my heels dug in on this at all. I'm just thinking, though, that there would have to be an agreement by the committee of the whole that the subcommittee would actually perform some kind of task. So it's not as if it's going to automatically happen, but I'm just suggesting that we might want to consider that it's there, it's a tool, and if it needs to be used, that's fine. It could be a very redundant tool, but to not have it in the quiver would.... It has to be there for some reason, as far as committees are concerned. As I say, if the fail-safe is that it would only go to the subcommittee on agenda and procedure if it were voted there by the committee of the whole, then it's not a threat. It's just possibly a useful tool that we might be able to use at some time.
On May 11th, 2006. See this statement in context.