Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to say to the Member for Monfwi, I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the job that he's done in the last while, trying to get an additional seat for his riding in Behchoko, and I have a great deal of respect, as well, for the leadership in the Monfwi riding and the Tlicho people. However, Madam Chair, I regret that I will not be able to support this amendment because I, too, have a constituency to represent in the city of Yellowknife and without another seat for Yellowknife, I cannot support any additional seats outside of Yellowknife, Madam Chair. That will be my stance on this.

I don't know if I have too much more to add. I think the discussion we're having here today is a good one. It seems a little bit backward to me, though, Madam Chair, in that I believe we probably could have saved ourselves some time and energy if we had just went to the bill as presented to us here today. But again, we're dealing with the amendment and, sorry, Mr. Lafferty, I can't support the amendment. Thank you, Madam Chair.