If the committee wants to, it can elect another vice-chair. I would suggest we do that, and have every political party have a vice-chair. I know PROC is dealing with this, but we can set our own thing here with regard to.... Each committee is doing its own separate thing. I think it would be in the best interest of all of us to just get that done and over with and let PROC decide what it wants.
This committee—and some have served with me on it—has a long history of being very solid in terms of its independent and non-partisan work in many respects. I originally served with Paul Crête here for many years, when we actually did have an extra vice-chair.
I offer that to the committee and hope that we can dispense with this and move on with our business from here forthwith.