Madam Chair, I understand what's being said. However, although it hasn't always succeeded, most of the time this committee has tried to work on consensus, because of the nature of the work that we do, and we have not ever used a subcommittee. We agreed the last time that we would not use a subcommittee. I'm not quite sure what the point of it would be. As soon as you put something there, then you start using it and then you start moving away from what I would consider a consensus approach to this committee. I think this committee works best when it works around the table. We've made some really good decisions. I would hate for us to move away from that. I quite frankly don't support leaving it in. I think we should leave the issue of the subcommittee out altogether, as we did in the past.
On November 14th, 2007. See this statement in context.