Mr. Chair, I have gone through times in my life when a good salary, or any salary, could not be counted on. Sometimes I was between jobs, facing unemployment insurance, and struggling. However, as parliamentarians, we do not worry, right? We are going to get our paycheque no matter what. However, we have to earn it, and the way we earn it is to never to forget that we represent individual Canadians, and that the personal is political.
We fail when people think that the mill's closing in someone's town does not affect us, or when it does not make us so angry we could scream every time we know that raw logs are being shipped out, when mills would love to run more shifts and hire more workers but cannot get the logs. We have to let communities know that we care; that, at least, is some consolation.