Now, mind you, I've been thrown in, thrown out, and recycled. I've changed parties a few times, run as an independent, and I've been involved with some wonderful things. I had a private member's bill on brain tumour registries; it was really meaningful, but this is turning out to be more meaningful to me.
If you want to know what it means to me, it means a great deal. I cherish our history, but I especially cherish the indigenous history. We have so much of it where I live, and we're very fortunate to have it.
Heather talked about it. I can't say the Mi'kmaq term, but it's called Debert in English. They have discovered the oldest community in Canada. It's thirteen and a half thousand years old. It's very close to Millbrook. I'm hoping that we can make some progress on that before I am not here anymore.
This is very meaningful, and I didn't even realize how meaningful it was until we started to get calls from people—calls from indigenous people, calls from museums, calls from all over the world. A journalist in Germany called and interviewed me on it. That has never happened to me before, and I doubt that many private members' bills get written up in China in Chinese. It has turned out to be a very profound thing and very meaningful to me. I'm very grateful for the chance to have this bill and have you listen to it, and hopefully it will pass.