Mr. Chair, there is a problem here. One minute we say we're independent, and the next minute you have somebody from the other side telling us who is going to be on the committee and who is not going to be on the committee. The choice of who is going to be on the committee from the government side is going to be made by the government side, not by the NDP or by the opposition. Therefore, calling for this is actually not conducive to running this thing.
I would suggest you allow that choice on the government side. I'm not asking who should be there from the other side. I'm not pointing the finger and saying who you should appoint. What is yours is yours; what is ours is ours. Therefore, I cannot accept the amendment that says the NDP is going to tell us who is going to be in the chair or who is not going to be in the chair. It is our prerogative to decide, and we will decide on that.