Not to drag out the point, but I'm going to add that the other committee I sit on, the ethics committee, which I chair, doesn't use a subcommittee, and even with the larger numbers we haven't had any difficulty at all. The subcommittee meetings usually have taken 15 or 20 minutes, and we've never had anything proposed by the subcommittee that wasn't ratified by the committee as a whole.
This therefore just skips a step. It doesn't preclude the possibility, if we find that we are ground to a halt by debate at the main committee, of using the subcommittee at a future date.
I like the idea at this time. I don't think we need a motion to that effect. I think there is general agreement, with all due respect to Gerry, that we should meet as a whole.