Nursing, okay, that's an incredibly admirable industry. I just had the nurses' association in my office today talking to me about Bill C-211 and some of the things that we're doing with that bill.
Let me get back to the other part because I don't want you to question my relevance on this. I signed on the dotted line, put my name forth, because I wanted to make a difference for those in the riding of Cariboo—Prince George. I think every member of Parliament wants to do that. I think we all come here with the best of intentions. I think maybe we all come here with big ideas that we're going to change the world and we're going to break the bureaucracy. I too think that the wheels of bureaucracy move slowly at times and I'm not one to sit and say, that's the way it is, that's the way it has always been.
I think the people on my fisheries committee could probably see that I'm not one who likes to say, that's just the way it has always been. I think there are efficiencies that we can find in all ways, and we can move forward in being an efficient Parliament.
One of the comments that was made earlier tonight was that if we want to keep going because we're afraid of change and it's not going to be...you know, that's the furthest from the truth. The best way to find a solution is to find a common ground.
Finding a common ground starts with—and I'm going to bring it back to the word we started with earlier—trust.
I think it was mentioned that this whole Parliament is going to be wasted because there's no consensus that's going to be able to come. That's a very authoritarian or maybe not a very realistic way of thinking. If we threw our arms up every time and stomped off because we weren't able to come to an agreement on something, that's not a real-world way of thinking, to begin with.
Mr. Chair, I'm a small business owner. I think I mentioned that before. I own a hair salon. Don't judge, I do it myself. My colleague is staring at me. Yes, I own a hair salon, but I've owned many different businesses over the course of my lifetime. I've been a small business owner from right after graduating from high school. I believe that entrepreneurship is the way to independence and to wealth. It gives one a real sense of accomplishment when they can build something from the ground up and move it forward. These are words to live by. About my hockey players, I'm going to put this out there and this is going to be very embarrassing but I think if my colleague Mr. Simms—he's not even here—can use self-deprecating humour, I can do the same. I'm a big chubby guy, I'm bald, and I wear Lulus on the plane, so it should be fairly easy to pick on me.