Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not know why the procedure of nominating a Member to the committee or special committees has been done, like the secret ballot previously. Yes, I, too, was approached as to whether I want to be a member of that committee or not. However, with my committee membership now, I think I have got almost all the committee membership seats. I do not know if that is fair or not, but I am getting a little bit busy here.
How we should have dealt with it, I guess, is to determine during the full caucus what would be a good representation on that committee, rather than filling out papers like it was in a secret ballot -- and as it turned out my friend here was the only one who put his name down -- but if it was discussed in an open, full caucus meeting in an committee room, we probably would have been able to balance out to make up good representation on that very important committee. Social problems in the North are one of the biggest problems, and the social committee would have had a good impact in advising the government on social matters. Maybe the whole procedure of selecting committee membership in all of these areas is wrong.
I, in fact, disagree with the system of the striking committee. Especially, I was not pleased when the committees were chosen on the basis of the individual on finance. I fought tooth and nail trying to be on finance. Of course I would not have been put in there except as an alternate. I will not be supporting the motion because I want to select a committee with a better method than what we have been doing.