You're not wrong, and yes it is my intention that we, as a committee, decide what's appropriate for us to study. We don't go back to the House and debate the appropriateness of what it is that we agree to study. I think that's an ill-advised course of action. We are to be the master of our own destiny, not going back to the House and asking whether it's appropriate that we have hearings on Korea. This is our committee. It would be dangerous practice for us to go back to the House of Commons and ask members to debate, for any length of time, what we should do here. We have a hard enough time determining our own priorities without asking 300 other people to do them for us.
On November 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.