My colleagues, I want to pay tribute before we start our question period today and you will understand why.
Today, for those of us who are House officers, is rather a bittersweet day because Mary Anne Griffith, Deputy Clerk of the House of Commons, is sitting for the last time as a table officer in this Chamber.
She is leaving us after 30 years in the public service, 27 of them here, in the House of Commons. During her long career in the House, Mary Anne achieved a lot.
In April 1883 she became a table officer—