Thank you for the question. I think that the first few weeks, as all of us know who are new—it’s a learning experience every day, although I’ve been assured by my colleague that she continues to learn, two years into this, so I expect that that will be the case. It has been exciting. It has been interesting. It’s been a pleasure to meet with my constituents and different business leaders in the community who are reaching out and just introducing themselves. They might not even have a particular issue. They just want to say hello, to wish me well and, if there’s anything they can help with, to extend that hand. That’s really been appreciated.

I think about debates and I think about how we can be at one end of a spectrum and another end of a spectrum. I recall being in a meeting not too long ago where, after hearing one side of the debate, I thought, “Oh, that makes sense.” I then heard the other and thought, “Oh, that makes sense too.” Really, it was just highlighting a risk of that first person’s view, and we landed somewhere in the middle. I wish we could do more of that here. I would like to see us do more of that here, where we listen to the views of all the people who want to contribute and end up with a solution that is better for all.

Dennis’s birthday was just this week, so it’s a little hard for our family. But let me just say, as I said, that he was committed to his work and to his patients. We’ve had the pleasure of meeting so many of them, following his death. Again, they reached out. It’s been five years, but it feels like yesterday.

I think that when we see people dedicate their life to service, that is always inspiring, so Dennis was always inspiring to all of us. I said at his funeral that he was the best of the four of us. He got the best of all of us.

I’m sorry that I’m a little emotional here to talk about this.

I think that another connection we have here is that on the day he died, he was paddleboarding. He loved to paddleboard. He loved the outdoors, as I said. Sadly, he drowned. We have some questions about exactly what happened. But I think about his life of service when I’m here and I think about the doctors who are here, who have taken their place in this House. I think about Dr. Eric Hoskins. He happened to be at the hospital where Dennis worked in Orillia the day after Dennis died, so he commented on that.

The last time that someone says his name—that will be a long time from now, because he was a wonderful doctor, a wonderful brother and a wonderful son.