I am going to continue and come back to the householder I mentioned a few moments ago.
We asked people why they opposed the elimination of the riding and were asking for the status quo in eastern Quebec.
These are the reasons they gave us: the loss of services to the public; too much distance to travel to the MP's office; loss of personal interest in democracy; loss of our political weight in Ottawa; more difficulty accessing federal financial resources; and greater power in the major centres at the expense of regions outside those centres.
That is what the people where I come from told us.