You could certainly ask them. I of course would never shy away from that discussion.
Look, there's no doubt that the names St. Croix and Saint John are historically significant—St. Croix because it is the boundary line between the United States and Canada, and Saint John because it's our country's first incorporated city.
These are important historical places and, as I said in a previous answer, Saint Croix Island is important not just for this riding but for all of Canada, and for French-speaking Canadians in particular, being the first settlement ahead of even Quebec City. It is an important part of our country's history, but that doesn't mean it accurately reflects this riding. Saint Croix Island, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, is recognized by Parks Canada for that settlement. Saint John is its municipality. While I think these are important historical places, I don't think that automatically means we should apply them to a riding.
What I've learned about this riding, to give you a sense of it, is that it covers approximately 10,000 square kilometres and its largest municipality has about 6,000 people. The riding is really a lot of small communities. Grand Manan has 2,000 people. Campobello has 900 people, and White Head has a couple of dozen. I could go on, but you can understand that once you get past the three municipalities of 6,000, the size falls to 2,000 and then just hundreds. It has many communities, and as I travelled the riding, particularly when I first started, the thing that kept coming back to me was that people struggle a bit about why they're part of New Brunswick Southwest and not Fredericton, not Saint John, not Sussex or whatever.
“New Brunswick Southwest” is a name that I think binds people together. These symbols are important. I do worry that if we adopt the name “Saint John—St. Croix” a large number of municipalities are just going to feel that they're not represented by the label. While that won't make a difference in terms of representation and how I vote, I think it does have a symbolic value that's important.