Thanks. I'm not sure if I'll take all five minutes.
Brian and Chris, I agree with both of you, and Nathan over there, that it's tough in these hearings to follow along with the maps in front of us. I think that's the biggest frustration I have, to literally try to follow your recommendations as you're proposing on the map, when we really can't tell the....
That's just my whine for the day. Perhaps, Mr. Chair and the analyst, we could try to do something for future meetings, because it really is frustrating. We're trying to do the best we can here, and for a lot of it I'm just going on the basis that you know what you're talking about. I can't tell by the map.
That said, I want to go back to something you said, Chris, because I think this is going to come up with a lot of boundaries in large rural geographic ridings. You talked about the need for public meetings and having limited Internet access in some of the northern ridings in Alberta.
I have read suggestions that with today's new technology, whether it be email, Skype, or the like, MPs really shouldn't have a concern about how large an area they represent in terms of communicating with their constituents, because they have other accesses to do that.
My question is to both of you, actually, but I'll start with Chris. How important is it to your constituents to have the ability to meet with you as their elected representative on a face-to-face basis, as opposed to meeting over Skype or through an email or even by telephone?