Okay.
Secondly, different times throughout your presentation you referred to “effective representation”. Mr. Streicker talked about the same thing.
Mr. Streicker, you tied it into the number of minutes available per MP to speak in the House of Commons. I think you said something like, if every MP were to speak for one minute, it would take five hours or something.
My question is whether effective representation is about the amount of time that a particular MP speaks in the House of Commons, or is it in fact as much weighted upon his or her service to constituents back in the riding? We deal with many issues, a myriad of issues: immigration, EI, CPP, and dozens of others. I would contend that this is as much effective representation as the number of hours that I have or words that I happen to say in Hansard. I think some of our colleagues are in a bit of a contest to see who say the most words, and I question very clearly whether that is effective representation.