Mr. Speaker, Jacob Bredenhof is a childhood cancer survivor. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. He endured a painful leg amputation and 17 difficult rounds of chemo, but neither cancer nor COVID could keep Jacob down.
Last month, he and his family organized a “Pedal for Hope” team to raise funds for the Terry Fox Foundation, completing a 105-kilometre bike ride through my riding of Chilliwack—Hope with Jacob leading the way. He started out with the goal to raise $20,000, but vastly underestimated the impact that his courage to come back would have on the people who know him and who have followed his story. To date, Jacob's team has raised over $110,000.
Jacob and his family have seen many kids that they knew and loved die from this beast of a disease, and they want to do what they can to raise money and awareness in the hope that fewer children will lose their lives to cancer. To them I say well done. We are all on Jacob's team.