I can still give you a lot of arguments against the trend toward increasing the size of electoral districts in the rural regions. For example, if we were to go with this plan, I would have to cover 258 km. In addition, there are two municipalities in my electoral district with the name Saint-Cyprien. And they are so far apart they do not even have modifiers. They are not Saint-Cyprien de Bellechasse, for example. These are two municipalities called Saint-Cyprien and they are approximately 245 km apart.
I could advance a lot of arguments against expanding these electoral districts, but I want to go back to the basic principle we are defending this morning. There is a consensus. The first thing I did when I saw the second version proposed by the commission was to call Mr. Provençal, the warden of Les Etchemins. I told him that he should conduct his consultation, that I was going to defend his positions and that, if a consensus emerged on the idea of keeping Les Etchemins with Bellechasse, I would be there to defend that view. We are dealing with a regional consensus.