I'm a fisheries committee veteran. I've been on it during my entire time as a member of Parliament, four-plus years. The fisheries committee has a reputation of being quite a collegial committee. Essentially all reports were unanimous.
We did have a subcommittee, but as subcommittee members we all had a lot of meetings to go to, and that was an extra one. The chair at the time made the subcommittee work but everything the subcommittee did had to be brought back to the committee of the whole anyway. I always felt that it was a bit redundant, and quite honestly, as I said, the collegiality of this committee, or at least what I've been used to, means that I think we'll come to some pretty easy agreement on what needs to be done with a fairly efficient use of our time.
I honestly don't think this is a very large question for us, and quite frankly, I think that if we find the idea for a committee of the whole to set the agenda doesn't seem to be working that well, we can always form a subcommittee.
Thank you.