I think that's the heart of the problem. If we got to a stage where there were three or four much larger provinces—and you point to the prairie provinces as the case, if they had fewer seats than New Brunswick—I think you'd be coming close to serious constitutional issues.
New Brunswick, and potentially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and certainly now Prince Edward Island, have all these constitutional guarantees. Now if we have a system in which almost half the provinces—or in effect more, if we include the prairie provinces—are constitutionally protected from the principle of fairness and the principle of proportionality, at some point you will have a democratic problem. You will have a democratic crisis.
Essentially, by adopting this bill, we try to avoid that, and that's what we've been doing for 40 years now. Every time we do this redistribution, we say, well, we're going to put that off, let MPs deal with this 10 years from now, and we won't let the numbers change.
The reality is that under this bill, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are all going to have a smaller share of the House of Commons. We're not changing that reality. We're reducing their share. We're just pretending we're not by not changing the number, so we're not facing up to it.