Quite honestly, I can't think of a good argument. My colleague Jim, as well as Ted Menzies and Kevin Sorenson, are all on board with what I proposed. I don't know why they wouldn't be able to make that accommodation. It makes perfect sense to me in terms of the counties. When we looked at the whole issue, we tried to get the boundaries so that you would get some natural boundaries like the Saskatchewan border, the Montana border, the Red Deer River. We also included the actual various counties to ensure that the municipalities would be there and stay the same.
On February 12th, 2013. See this statement in context.