Thank you very much, Chair.
I want to take the conversation in a little bit of a different direction. I appreciate the arguments you've been making, and when I look at the Liberal proposal for Ontario, for example, the average riding size would be 121,573. Under the government's bill it's 110,000.
Professor Wiseman, you said that having 260 MPs would be fine, because with closure we're not getting additional debate anyway. I think that's a point well taken, but what we do in the House is only one side of our job. We do have significant responsibilities in the riding for things, including case or advocacy work on behalf of a number of people within our ridings. I have to tell you, in a riding where we have a huge newcomer, immigrant population that isn't reflected in these numbers in terms of their ability to vote, it's difficult to be able to meet all of the demands at the riding level. I've often pined or wanted to be a member from P.E.I., where the riding size is 36,000.
In your comments, you focus solely on size of the House, based on our responsibilities here as parliamentarians and participants in debate. I wonder if you'd want to comment on the impact on riding representation.