If I might just observe, it sounds to me...and I've seen this in a number of provinces I've looked through where I've found some oddities in boundaries. They seem to be connected to the commission having set up internal, although unstated, criteria that they, in this commission, will not go above or below x%.
It sounds like in New Brunswick they may have chosen 10%. I can't help but notice how close 9.9% is to 10%.
I mention this now because, while I'm assuming something that I don't know to be true, if it is the case, I'd like the members of the commission to deal with marginal cases like this with the full awareness that what they're doing is setting themselves a boundary. They should be conscious of whether that ought to, or ought not to, trump communities of interest.
I think your argument here would be that in this case it's a technical boundary, not of great importance, and that the community of interest would trump that very small variation.
Would that be a fair assessment?