No. I want to turn to the words of the act itself because I think this is important. I do not normally like to read statutes in the House because it is pretty tedious.
I would like to quote from the old Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act that dealt with the power of commissions to go beyond the 25 per cent rule. It stated as follows:
The commission may depart from the strict application of the rules set out in paragraph 1(a) and (b) in any case where:
(a) special geographic-