Madam Chair, I'd be happy to.
Through you, I will ask this of Mr. Therrien.
From what I understand of the amendment proposed by the Conservative member from British Columbia, after the application of rule 4 of this section of the Constitution, we would come back to rule 1 to ensure that each province has representation in the House of Commons that is equivalent to the percentage of its population.
For example, if the population of British Columbia represents 11% of the population of Canada, then, after the application of all of the rules, rule 1 would be applied so that British Columbia had 11% of all seats in the House of Commons.
The three provinces affected by this change would be my province, Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. They would have more seats in the House of Commons to make that number equivalent to the percentage that their population represents of the population of Canada. That would be the effect of the amendment that has been proposed.