Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to be here today.
I would like to let you know at the start that like all members of Parliament in this House, one of the greatest honours I have had is to be a member of Parliament. Certainly one of the greatest honours I've had is to represent the people of northern Alberta.
I do not have any difficulties with my north boundary, nor do I have difficulties with the west boundary. If I may, I'm going to illustrate this by showing a map here. There have been many maps circulated, so I'm not sure if you have this. I believe Mr. Warkentin has passed it out. That's excellent.
As you can see, the reason I don't have a problem with the north boundary or east boundary is that both are the Alberta provincial boundaries. The only question, then, is the west boundary and the south boundary. My difficulty with what the commission came out with is simply that they included a community called Wabasca-Desmarais, which is a huge aboriginal reserve, plus one of the fastest-growing areas in Alberta with oil sands. They included that area, not recognizing that there is no direct route from Fort McMurray to that particular community. In fact, if you drive to Wabasca, which is currently in my riding.... I take great pride in representing that area, but the difficulty is that it has no economic ties with Fort McMurray. The economic ties are all with High Prairie, Slave Lake, and Athabasca. In fact, you cannot get—