Just to make another brief comment—and nothing of this is against Dave and the parliamentary secretary—I've been a parliamentary secretary and know that in some committees there's an objection to having the parliamentary secretary on the steering committee, because they're privy to a lot of information. The feeling is they could try to drive the agenda in a certain way the committee members as a whole may not appreciate. I know I've been excluded in the past from steering committees when I was a parliamentary secretary. So I just think it's that way.
On November 13th, 2007. See this statement in context.