Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, I would like to say that I'm very sorry, professors, that we are squeezing you in with so little time. It's a debate that we had between us. We did not win this debate. I hope I will convince my Conservative colleagues, though, that it would indeed be good if the Fair Representation Act did not become the More Politicians Act.
I'm convinced that this may be fixed. We all agree that the proportions are right now. Ontario is not left out; Quebec is not left out. We have good proportions, but what we disagree on is the size of the House. I would like to hear from you about that. Two of you have made it very clear that you would prefer not adding seats to the House, and Professor Wiseman would like to decrease the number of seats.
What do you think about the alternative proposition that I think you're familiar with, that we would change the current federal clause by the 15% clause—that would say that a province cannot lose seats more than 15% at each operation? That would allow us to stay at 308 seats and to achieve the same proportion for each province, and then to have equity without ballooning the House with 30 new seats.
So, each of you.