Thank you, Chair.
Professor Carty, I'm interested in zeroing in on some of your comments. I appreciate what you're saying about going after a number and working towards that. But again, recognizing some of the quagmires or problems that exist in regard to minimum representation, what do you think the effect would be in prairie provinces if one day Manitoba or Saskatchewan had fewer seats than New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, because of the Senate representation—or even equal seats?
I can ask some of these questions because I'm from New Brunswick. We're dug in with 10 senators, 10 seats. We're not going to lose anything. But I do wonder what the effect would be on some of these other provinces, a province of 1.2 million people versus a province of 750,000, having the same number of seats in the House of Commons—or potentially fewer.
I'll leave it at that. I'm curious to get an answer.