I appreciate that, and I'll begin with the last question, because I think it's absolutely essential.
The commission has talked about somehow dividing the square kilometres as being the determination of the workload or the population. Unfortunately, what they did in the last proposal is they divided what I currently represent up the centre and created this requirement that now two members of Parliament would travel eight hours to basically meet people on opposite sides of the highway, rather than having one member of Parliament going up the highway to meet with constituents on both sides of the highway in communities that are along the highway or off the highway.
I begin travelling from Grande Prairie. I go through Fairview. I hold a town hall meeting there. The folks from the outlying areas congregate there. Then I go up to Peace River, then Manning, and all the way up the way.
The proposal now is that I would go from Grande Prairie and get to Fairview. Fairview would now be outside of my riding. That's where the highway would take me, but I'm now out of my riding. I would drive for two hours outside of my riding. Unfortunately, all of the rural area surrounding the highway is still my riding, but I can't hold a town hall meeting in Fairview because it's not my riding, so there's not really a congregating point for the rural community.
Then I'd go further up. I'd bypass Peace River. It's not in my riding. Then I'd get to Manning, and I might hold a town hall meeting there, but then the rural community is again parcelled off to a different MP. I'd hold the town hall meeting there and I'd try to convince the local residents that because their farm is on the other side of a fence line from their neighbour, they're not my constituents.
Then I get to High Level, where I would hold a town hall meeting, and I'd have everybody there. Unfortunately, then we couldn't have the folks from the other farming community of La Crete there, because they're represented by another MP.
Then the other MP would have to go up the same highway and do exactly the same thing.