You said that you support fairer representation. It's important that the provinces that are underrepresented, and significantly underrepresented and will continue to be underrepresented...we need to close that gap. Every Canadian expects that their vote, to the greatest extent possible, should have equal weight across the country. The fact is that we have seat guarantees. There's the Senate clause, the grandfather clause.
The Liberal plan, of changing that and just moving seats around the existing seats we have, would actually have to pick winners and losers. Essentially, the Liberal plan would have Quebec lose seats. Newfoundland and Labrador would lose seats, Nova Scotia would lose seats, Saskatchewan would lose seats, and Manitoba would lose seats, to compensate for Alberta, B.C., and Ontario. We don't think that's fair. We don't think it's fair to move those seats around. We don't think it's fair to do what the Liberals would do, to pick winners and losers.
So what we have proposed is a principled formula that's fair for all provinces, that brings every province closer to representation by population. It's a formula that's actually applicable to all provinces.