Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would be happy to, but I really, I am not sure that the question has been properly answered yet. My concern is that, under section 58 of the Charlottetown Accord, it says that any increase in the representation for new provinces in the Senate should also require the unanimous consent of all provinces, and the federal government.
What I was relating to, is the fact that we have got away from, in the Meech Lake Accord, the requirement of unanimity for the creation of a new province. We have gone back to the 7/50 and an act of Parliament. Should that ever happen, and by the way I was not expecting that provincehood was something that was on the near horizon, that was not the reason for the question. The reason for the question is that if we are entrenching something in the Constitution, it is probably going to be there for a while, and it will be rather difficult to change.
It would seem that in this one, we might have an opportunity, 10, 20 or however many years down the road it is to become a province, but we are still stuck with a requirement for unanimous consent for us to achieve equitable representation in parliament. That is really my question, is that a relatively good compromise for the people of the north in terms of trying to keep the country together, can we balance that off with the benefits to aboriginal people?
I am just asking for an assessment of how I sell that to the people in my constituency who say, well, if we should ever become a province we will not ever be equal, because we will not ever get unanimous consent to have the same number of seats as the smallest other province. That is really the question that I was asking.