Mr. Chair, we have two problems with this. Of course, the first would be that a quorum would have a government member. This means that any meeting could effectively be shut down by government members not showing up. The second problem is the insertion here of designation of chair. Of course, with having a government member present, our concern or fear is that it would scuttle any committee meeting from ever taking place if there was a “no show” by government members. So we would naturally oppose this and request that the status quo remain.
On November 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.