I have some sympathy. The riding I represent in British Columbia is some 300,000 square kilometres in size. I was just doing some math because I've never really done it properly. North to south is just short of a 31-hour drive, and it's almost the same amount of time going east to west. So I get the inconvenience and challenges of getting around.
One thing, Garry, is you were referencing your riding as a hub and spoke. We may have a difference of opinion around the term, because obviously with the earlier panel we've been focusing on Saskatoon and Regina. What I've been referring to and thinking of as a hub and spoke is if it was the shape of a pizza almost, where you have ridings extending out of a larger urban centre and you have four or five of them around the wheel as a hub and spoke.
I look at your riding, which is very similar to most other rural ridings in Canada, where you have a large area and then one or two main towns located in the riding. Do you understand why I might have confusion about referring to that as a hub-and-spoke riding, in the sense that it's very different from what exists right now in Saskatoon and Regina?