Thank you.
If I can offer a bit of my time...the people who have helped with the exemptions I'm so grateful to. There are many in this room who did help us, but there were many who did not offer us the time that I thought was appropriate given the circumstances.
Mr. McCall's wife, a nurse in Canada, died saying goodbye to her children through FaceTime, this from a system that did not care to give them more than a form letter. At the time, Minister Blair was the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. I ran that campaign asking him to just call John. That was in 2021. We asked him in 2020. Now it's 2023.
Yes, it was absurd that I had to run as an independent—not partisan—just to get that attention and that discussion, and I once again bring you John McCall, driving all the way in from his retired wonderful life in Madoc, to get a little face time and the small modicum of respect that a man deserves after suffering so much. His example allowed a family to reunite in Canada when their sister was dying because of the example he and Donna put together.
Yes, I do big things, but that's in honour of and as advocates for Donna. That's why we're here today.