Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll share my time with John McKay.
Thank you for being here.
I want to ask you a question. Unknown to you--because it just happened a little while ago--I announced that we would propose an amendment, and the Bloc members agreed, that the definition of “regions” would exclude metropolitan areas with population over either 150,000 or 200,000. So that would, I think, bring it closer to the Quebec situation, because if you exclude cities like Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Halifax, and no doubt many others, then you make the percentage of the population closer to the Quebec model, and you would bring the costs closer to the Quebec number, as compared with the federal finance number.
Certainly one could calculate the impact by looking at which cities and towns would be involved. Perhaps you don't know that off the top of your head, but can you give some sense of how big an impact this might have if we excluded all cities with population in excess of 150,000?