Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I tend to agree. I think you have a good grasp of the issue.
I guess that comes to the crux of the matter. Clearly we're happy that we have more members, that we do have five members on this side, but what happens is that if we have a mechanism that we have around the table, oftentimes there's a situation where you have five members and there's a person who doesn't get to speak during that committee meeting. This committee can often be far less partisan, and the way it often becomes less partisan is when we actually bring issues that concern each of our ridings. I think it's important that we have representation from the different areas. It's not necessarily a party issue. I know in the last Parliament we discussed the issue of passport services, and every person on this side of the table had a very different perspective from one another, based on their own experience from their own community.
So I think it's important that we have a system--and I think you've outlined one--where every member gets some opportunity to bring their concerns forward and to represent their perspectives around this table. I think that might be one way we can reduce the partisan nature of this, by giving everybody an opportunity to question and to bring their different perspectives forward.