As my colleague James Bezan mentioned, that intention does not come from us; the request comes from the Prime Minister.
The first goal is for the parliamentary secretary and the Minister of National Defence to work closely together.
From the outset, this committee has had a lot of difficulty and has not been able to ensure our sovereignty as a committee or do what we should be doing, autonomously.
At present, for some things, we are more in a situation of interference from the Minister and the parliamentary secretary, at the request of the Prime Minister. He is the one who asked that the procedure be changed, not us.
We simply want to apply the procedure so the committee can function, myself included. I occasionally attend meetings of other committees, and it is totally different. I would like us to be able to have a more effective way of working for everyone.
The motions we are making are not aggressive. They are motions to govern the functioning of the committee; we are trying to function.