Thank you for the question.
Certainly, the proposal can be improved. However, as I was saying earlier, I don't think it's our place to sit at the drawing board and draw boundaries.
There really could be more flexibility to the process. I think Minister Miller's proposal for Old Montreal could be considered. However, the idea of taking a portion of Plateau Mont-Royal, namely “petit” Laurier-Ouest, and bringing it into Outremont does not make any sense, nor does the idea of splitting Saint-Henri in two. What we're pushing for today includes things that are really important to protecting the interests of our constituents.
We also have a problem with the process. Considering the initial proposals and the public consultations, the final report really comes as a surprise. How did we end up with this report, when it proposes things that were neither in the initial proposals nor in the proposals of those who were consulted? It's as if it was pulled out of thin air. Given this lack of transparency, people may feel they are being ambushed, since no one called for this.