It all depends. I agree with Mr. Allison in the sense that if you're travelling, depending on where it is, you could split the committee into two or three, with some out west, some in central Canada, some in the eastern provinces. If we're just two or three, and sometimes we're just two, you maybe have five or ten witnesses over there. So it all depends.
This motion is for Ottawa hearings. In Ottawa hearings we need to be three. I think it's important. When we say “be authorized to hold meetings”, it's meetings for witnesses, not for any other meetings. It's just for witnesses. For witnesses we can be three minimum, but if it's for voting, it doesn't mean we can vote. We need to get a quorum to vote anything else.
So it's just to hold witness meetings.