I don't want to repeat what's already been said, but I certainly agree with Ms. Minna, who has suggested that committees are a creature of Parliament and not of the government and, as such, need to be cognizant of maintaining that independence, and for there to be undue influence from a parliamentary secretary speaking on behalf of the minister might not be in the best interests of that. I would also like to say that my experience of the last Parliament was that the subcommittee as it was structured worked really well. We did work on a consensus basis, and as the chair has said, ultimately we brought it back to the larger committee anyway.
I think the measure of a subcommittee is how effective it is in getting what it brings back passed by the larger committee, and in most instances that happened. We didn't get into a big wrangle when we came back. It didn't start all over again. Not all the time, but most of the time when we came back with a recommendation, it was accepted because it was logical and well thought out and made sense, and it certainly was not a waste of time.
So I would suggest that we retain that model, and if there's a consensus being built here, I certainly want to be a part of it.