Obviously, every province should have the number of seats that is proportional to its proportion of the population. That is the ideal.
Is there a way of improving this bill? In order to do it and have a formula to do this, mathematically speaking, you have to work with the quotient. You will have to reduce that quotient to increase those seats. At a moment in time, you can't do it just for one province. It has to be based on a formula.
The alternative is to increase that, but this is what you were discussing the other day. You get to a point where you have too many members of Parliament, especially when you consider that the people at the bottom, the people who are overrepresented, the provinces that are overrepresented, are significantly overrepresented, some of them. If you are going to be basing it on that, in order to have that as your common denominator, you have to blow the House of Commons totally out of proportion.
I think it's the right idea to eliminate that as part of the solution. You just leave that and work on the rest. That's why I think this bill is probably as good as it can get.