You know me, Mr. Chair, and I never want to complicate things that are not complicated. I do not think that this is such a complicated committee.
Mr. Vellacott's comments suggest that the fact that we have no power is a serious matter. It is not, because the subcommittee's role is to do the preliminary work before sending issues back to the main committee.
Mention was also made of the possibility of informing us. Mr. Chair, if your party did not see fit to pass information on to you, I doubt it would pass it on to us. That would merely complicate matters.
We must also remember how we work. You explained it very well a little earlier, Mr. Chair. You also have the right to speak and the right to vote. We function without a great deal of rigidity. I have been a member of this committee for four years now. I believe you were there when I started as well, Mr. Chair. In any case, we have been on this committee for some time now. The fact that we have no representative from the House has never caused a problem.
Consequently, I disagree with this amendment.