Yes.
The piece that I think is very relevant is your piece from April: “Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for Alberta's Right To Unite”. Our colleague and fellow member of this committee for the moment, Jason Kenney, is very keen that you be wrong, but it goes to the heart of the problem with first past the post.
In your comments, you said that with proportional representation we'd have a proliferation of smaller parties, but your example actually came from first past the post and the splintering of Progressive Conservatives and Reform and the Bloc. I just want to ask you, if you could cast your mind back to the 1993 election, whether you have any concerns that the country wouldn't have had better representation had we not had a first-past-the-post system, which, for 16% of the vote gave Progressive Conservatives two seats, while 6.7% of the vote for the NDP gave them nine seats, and in the previous election the Progressive Conservatives, with 43% of the vote, had 169 seats.
Does this in any way create any concern on your part about first-past-the-post perverse results, in your interest of voices on the right not forcing themselves to unite in order to get the kind of Parliament that the voters would want?