Mr. Speaker, Friday will mark three years since the passing of my father, the Hon. Jim Carr. My dad loved Canada, its people, its culture, its kindness and tenacity, and all that it gave him. He taught me from a young age that those with whom we disagree are merely our opposition, not our enemies. He conducted himself with integrity, honesty and compassion. Seldom a week goes by without someone coming up to me to share a fond memory of him, and each encounter ends with some variation of the same: “He was a good man,” they say.
Whenever the time may come that I look back at my own parliamentary career, I hope I will be able to genuinely say that I have lived up to the standard that he has set for us all. In the Jewish faith, upon one's passing, we have an expression of condolence that we offer: May their memory be a blessing. On that account, I can say with all my heart that, with him in my mind, I stand eternally blessed.