Well, I would say that it's not only a matter of cost for me. I have been Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs long enough to know that when you have a lot of MPs, they want to be the mayor, they want to be the MLA. For the effectiveness of our federation, it would be good to not increase the House, but to keep it at 308.
Professor Pal, we have the same proportion as the government does, at 308. If you're right, if you think that in the future we'll need to add seats because of demography—although it's difficult to predict, as you know.... In fact, Immigration Canada came out with new figures today showing that immigrants are now going more to the Prairies than to Ontario. Assuming that's the case, don't you think it's an additional reason to keep it at 308 this time, that we may do it while achieving the same equity as in the government's bill?