I'd like to point out something for our new members. It's been the position of the NDP that the parliamentary secretary should not be on the steering committee. The idea behind that position--and it's been our position for the better part of 10 years--is that we want, as much as possible, the parliamentary committees to be independent of the government, so we can do our work without direction from cabinet in particular. I don't have a problem with the composition in terms of the five members. But we've always been opposed to that part of it, so that part of it I would want as a separate motion.
