Thank you, Mr. Chairperson. I appreciate this.
This motion is almost identical to the one passed by our committee on February 17, 2005. I want to express gratitude to the clerk for ensuring that the motion was improved and is much more consistent with the proper conduct of a committee.
It is simply intended to put in place procedures that will allow us to handle the change of the rules surrounding committees being able to vet appointments, something that happened in the last Parliament and that requires some process for carrying out the review of those appointments. This is simply an attempt to put in place some guidelines and a procedure by which we can conduct business with respect to those appointments.
It seemed to work well the last time. There are a few changes to make it more specific, but it's still there in substance as we've used it in the past.