Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Certainly I have not been a member of Parliament for so many years, but I have had at least a couple on other committees. The committee experience I had was that when there was something that was of particular interest, those appointments were actually flagged, and of course we had some process around them, but certainly it was not common practice that....
You know, most of the members did their due diligence and read the bios or explored the background, but it was not a committee process for all the appointments. I think if you look at how much time would be spent in committees across this House, if we were looking at all these government in council appointments....
I do have to say, in spite of Mr. Julian's comments that he responded, that what we are actually voting on is a motion, and the motion does not say “subcommittee”. It says “examine the following”. The motion really doesn't help frame what we're going to do and where we're going to go with this particular issue.