Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Some of us have experienced a reduced quorum on another committee. When a committee travels, we've had instances of the committee members, in order to make a flight or travel...instances where two government members and one opposition member and the chair were present. That's when the Liberals were acting in the chair position. With the reduced quorum, there were no problems. The only problem was that the members could not be present because they had to make their flights or travel arrangements on a Thursday or Friday night just to get home.
Really, I don't see this reduced quorum as an issue here. For one thing, if the committee does have to travel, sometimes a reduced quorum will be necessary.