My understanding is that the clerk provided an email that contained advice to the committee, which said that this committee would reconvene on meeting 142. That was the direct result of the previous meetings being suspended. That was the procedural advice based on procedural consistency with the House. It has nothing to do with anybody else.
I understand that the Conservatives didn't want to follow procedure, and that's why the committee overturned the ruling of the chair on that. I found it pretty disappointing the way we proceeded at the beginning of the meeting, because what wasn't made clear was the ruling of the chair based on the very clear advice given by the clerk. I would note that other clerks have made the same ruling in other committees where meetings had been suspended previously.