Thank you.
I am very much of the view—and I think these good people in a saner moment would also acknowledge the fact—that if the chair has exposed his biases or prejudices or preferences or whatever in a subcommittee.... How can he be reasonably perceived by opposition members—having been smoked out, if you will, on the subcommittee—to be objective? It's ludicrous, and I don't know how anybody in their right mind would even see it otherwise.
I hear what you've said, Mr. Chair, that you will assertively inject your views and so on into the debate, but I caution you. I recommend you reconsider or you weigh that pretty carefully, because the fact, then, is that you're setting up a scenario and a dynamic in the committee meeting that follows in terms of where you stand on all these things.
So I think it's patently absurd and not very realistic to be doing it in the manner that's suggested here by the members. We're going to bring it all back to this committee anyhow, it appears. I'm not on that subcommittee, so I'm not wasting my time at it, thankfully. We'll debate the whole stuff in committee again.
I feel for you, Mr. Chair, and the others on the committee who will spend their time, but if they have nothing better to do, I guess it's up to them.