I've been sitting on this committee for seven years, through various governments and various makeups of this committee. This is one committee that has worked together extremely well. We have come here with our various political points of view to ensure that the issue of Canada's cultural development, our cultural sovereignty is first and foremost.
It would send a disturbing signal in the beginning to be thinking there's a need to start stacking subcommittees, when in the past--and I'm sure my colleagues who've sat on this committee would agree--we have always managed to find common ground, and when common ground has not been found, it's on the fair vote of committee. I would ask my colleagues to extend a branch of conciliation at this point and say that we should go with standard practice and not try to stack the deck.