Thank you.
I have a question for the clerk, actually. It's stemming from my own lack of knowledge of some of these procedures.
In most committees and organizations that I belong to, the members of the committee can invoke a meeting, and in most committees or organizations that I belong to, the vice-chair can take over simply when the chair is not present. If those rules apply here, then Mr. Trudeau's comments about the government necessarily being chair may not be entirely to the point.
In other words, I'm asking, can a meeting of this committee occur where, by reason of the absence of the chair, the vice-chair is in the seat?
Thank you.