Madam Speaker, I would also like to wish my colleague and friend from Bow River a merry Christmas. He used to be a teacher and taught one of my former colleagues, my friend Sherraine, and she always asks me how the member is doing. I tell her we have lively debates into the wee hours sometimes, but I do genuinely appreciate the opportunity.
I also appreciate the opportunity to say merry Christmas to my friend and to everybody in Calgary and around the Bow River area, of course. I would also like to wish everybody in Canada a merry Christmas at this time. I know that times can be tough, but we have solutions in Canada, and the member from Bow River and I can agree to disagree, but we are still friends. As we gather around tables and have meals and celebrate together, let us put our differences aside, enjoy one another's company and realize that we are better together than we are apart.