Thanks very much, colleagues. It's a pleasure to be here with you. I'm here to register my objection formally to the commission's electoral boundaries report for Nova Scotia insofar as it impacts the federal riding of Central Nova and the proposed creation of Pictou-Eastern Shore.
Rick, you'll be familiar with the communities I'm talking about, and perhaps if I could lean on you to let people know what the local dynamics might mean once I make my submissions, that would be helpful.
There are some substantive complaints about rearrangement—