It’s my pleasure today to welcome two of my friends and colleagues from the city of Ottawa who are joining me here today: Rudi Asseer, who is the chair of the Dare to be Vulnerable Project, dealing with storytelling for mental health among leaders in our city; and, of course, Dr. Aroldo Dargel, who is a bipolar specialist with the Ottawa Hospital, specifically at the General hospital. I want to say thank you to them for joining me. It is customary for us to get up and down and up and down to try and get somebody recognized around this place, so don’t take anything by it.

—Minden, where they got a big fight back with their hospital. And why did they do that? Because the greatest Canadian of all time, Tommy Douglas, got us a publicly funded, publicly delivered health care system. And we’re going to fight until this government backs down on privatizing our health care system, just like they did on the greenbelt, just like they did on the “notwithstanding” clause.

I’ve only got six seconds left. I just want to say, thanks for your time—and also to the Speaker, who probably let me get away with the odd thing, so I appreciate it.