Thank you very much, Madam Chair. As we progress along with the debate about the Electoral Boundaries Commission report, much has been said about the work done by the commission. Once again, I’d just like to reiterate they’ve done some really good work. They were out in the communities and regions and spoke to the people and heard them as well. They were also given instructions to provide 18, 19 or 21 MLA scenarios. With that, part of our process here this
evening is to actually vote on the recommendations that we had discussed amongst ourselves about bringing forward the motion for 18 MLAs, but as we heard, clearly there doesn’t seem to be any Members who support that scenario.
I spoke in favour of not the status quo, but to have 19 MLAs realign some constituency boundaries. With that, Madam Chair, I would like to move forward a committee motion.