Thank you, Mr. Chair.
He is tough on you, isn't he? He's keeping you to a timeline.
I've never had the experience in my family where we've had a child go missing or a child murdered or somebody who was critically ill. I will tell you that my boys are 8 and 11, and last weekend they were playing hockey—one of them was on the ice—and my eight-year-old went into the boards kind of hard. He was down for a bit, and I was scared. You feel that emotion right away. I know that if something ever happened to one of my kids, I absolutely would have to be there because that's how I see my role. I don't see myself as any different than any other Canadian mom or dad in the country who would want to be there for their kid. It's an emotional and instant reaction.
This is the right thing to do. To not have to worry about whether you're answering e-mails from the hospital room, or you have to step out to take a conference call or to make sure a file gets moved, is going to be a load off a lot of people's minds. They should be focusing on what they need to focus on, which is their kids.