Well, certainly when you look at the community of interest, I would say ask any mayor within my riding whether they want my riding to expand to be what in effect is taking Mr. Goodale's riding of Wascana into my riding. In fact, if you think about it, I get off the airplane in Regina and drive two hours to Estevan, only to drive two hours back to get into Wascana, and here is the community of Regina. It doesn't make sense.
When you look at Regina, it's sort of like a doughnut. If you took 50 or 100 kilometres around Regina, it would make sense for those to be there and have a bit of a mix of urban-rural, because that's where they trade and that's how the economy goes. In fact, when you look at the 1965 decision, they said something that would be a Saskatchewan compromise. They said what we did is held.... In the cities of Regina and Saskatoon...a majority of the population of the riding was urban and a lesser number were rural, to account for that. Therefore, they said that balance truly represents Saskatchewan and the community of interest, and it actually does. That's exactly the point.
Then when we look at the effect of changing from urban-rural to urban only, it by necessity drives the rural constituency larger, when you don't need to do that. In my case, it is remarkable that I'd have to make that extra trip and get an extra area near Regina when Mr. Goodale could service it so very easily.