Mr. Cannis, with respect, if you listened to Mr. Julian's argument, it was that the committee would be hijacked, possibly, by members' not showing up, and we wouldn't be able to hear witnesses if you put “one member from the government”. If you put the rule in for “one member of the opposition”, the same thing can happen: if none of the opposition shows up, then we can't hear witnesses either. So in the interests of fairness—because that's what you're talking about—just make it “three members present”. Then the onus is upon all of us to be here. But you can't argue on one side that something might happen from one group and then argue that, for the same thing, on the other side it wouldn't happen somehow.
On February 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.