Mr. Chair, could someone clarify something for me? Is this the government's position, or that of Mr. Scott Reid? In case he doesn't know, each committee is the master of its own actions. Each committee has the right to decide if it will have subcommittees and, if so, what their role will be. Mr. Reid is not the one who decides for all of the committees. I want to be clear about that. When he says that he will be voting against this measure, is Mr. Reid speaking as an MP, or for the government which now wants to interfere with committees?
As the Speaker of the House of Commons so aptly put it:
the committee is the master of their own....