Thank you.
I'd like to start by thanking all of the witnesses. Your presentations were very informative.
I'll start off with Mr. Chambers, since you ended off with giving me a lot to think about in your proposal.
I think when you were summarizing all the different options we have to weigh and the different trade-offs we'd make with moving to different systems, you were bang on with the complexity of the issue, because there's always something we have to trade in order to gain something else. That is the position we're in, and we're trying to figure out what's most important to gain and what's the least of our priorities so we can trade it off.
There is one issue I see with putting the question of whether they want to merge or not merge to the people at every election. You said that in some areas the boundaries or regions you would merge together to have a multi-member district would be quite obvious. What if one current riding of that multi-member region votes to stay as a single-member region, but the other three or four vote to merge? What happens then? The intent of the majority of the people there is that they would like to merge, but then one riding that is the obvious choice to fit into that merger is saying they want to stay as a single member. What would you do in that situation?