Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I know the intention of this motion is to try to remove it from the politicians, but after extensive debate today and how emotional it was, not only for Members but for people out there in the public, the intent was to put it somewhere else and make a commission dictate how many MLAs we have. I think before that happens we have to have our discussion ourselves as to what’s the maximum. We have to set some parameters around it. We can’t just strike up some new board and then on top of that in the next election, as well, with the amendment.

So I’m not in favour of that. I’d rather raise it at Caucus and try to move forward with something that addresses all of our concerns, but to provide a kneejerk or committee motion like this, that’s something I cannot support without giving it some

full thought, bring it back to my constituency to discuss it, you know, how do we move forward.

In eight years I do believe that we will be in a position or we may be in a position to increase the number of MLAs because our population certainly has grown and we’ve seen that in the last eight years. I think we’re going to have to wait until then. Those are my comments. I won’t be supporting this motion.