As you saw, a lot of our arguments are similar, because it's a huge riding. These are huge ridings. The demographics are there. As I've indicated as well, we weren't against certain changes. Foleyet could easily go into the Timmins area.
We can't make up population. We have been growing in the north by approximately 2.8%. Also, the number of consultations didn't really allow for these communities to participate. There was one in Timmins. There was nothing in my riding at all. There was one in Thunder Bay, and one in.... There wasn't even one in Sudbury, which is the largest community.
I think certainly the process is there. I know they were really looking to see how best to do this, but their focus from the beginning was to remove that seat from northern Ontario. Also, as mentioned by Mr. Sheehan, what was applied in one area wasn't really applied in this area here, so we need to rethink how we do these ridings.
I know there might be some legislative processes that we would need to do in the future, but the commission does have a responsibility to ensure that these communities have the representation they need and deserve based on factors other than population.
I just want to add as well that the commission in this round has basically taken Sagamok away from Massey. Massey and Webbwood are communities in the township of Sables-Spanish Rivers, and to get to Sagamok you cross the bridge. It's just a bridge that divides them, so you can't really split them up and take them away. I understand the commission's thought of trying to put all the indigenous communities from that tribal council together, but it doesn't make sense to split up those communities.