The problem is that I've been through three rounds. In northern Ontario, it has been traumatic. I was elected after they ripped apart the ridings the last time. It took 10 years to build a community of interest. Then they suddenly said, “Well, that community of interest no longer exists.”
The Kapuskasing region, which is heavily francophone, fought for a long time to have its voice heard. Now it's going to be thrown in with Timmins, and all of my other communities are taken out.
I will quickly say that what we need to do in the future is this: The commission has to come forward and say, “What are people thinking?” There are ways.... None of our ridings make sense. They're all arbitrary and crazy. We've learned to work with them.
We probably would have brought a lot of opportunities to say these communities of interest.... We've talked among ourselves. None of that happened. They said, “This is what it's going to be.” Then, when there was overwhelming objection from every single economic, community and cultural organization—