Mr. Chair, in the last session we dealt with things in the committee as a whole, and I think it worked well. In fact, I don't recall a steering committee meeting. If there was one, I obviously missed it.
The problem is that if you leave it in, when does it meet and when does it not meet? If you don't have any subcommittee, then it's clear. If the chair wants to bring people in to discuss some feature or proposal, the chair can do that. Once you leave it in, it is in never-never land as to when the committee meets and on what issues.
I don't think we need one. We didn't have one in the past. We might have had one formally, but informally I don't think we ever used it.