Mr. Speaker, that is very nice, and it does give me an opportunity to give a few thanks.
I would start by thanking the dedicated public servants who worked with me in various departments, and in particular the deputy ministers, who, honestly, were all excellent folks: Catherine Blewett at Fisheries, Stephen Lucas, John Moffat, Chris Hogan at Environment Canada, J.F. Tremblay, John Hannaford, Mollie Johnson, Michael Vandergrift and Jeff Labonté at Natural Resources Canada. Canada should be very comforted and proud that we have such amazing public servants.
I thank my constituency staff. I often said, no offence to the other members in this place, but they ran one of the best constituency offices in the country, certainly the director, who has been long serving there, Cynthia Bunbury, and the many volunteers in my riding, in particular Duncan Frostick and Kevin Evans, who were great sources of guidance for me.
Of course, I thank the folks who worked in my offices here in Ottawa and the chiefs of staff I have had: Marlo Reynolds, Claire Seaborn, Alexis McIntyre, Kyle Harrietha and a whole range of amazing staff, many of whom have chosen to be here today.
I thank Laura Mitchell, who has been with me for 10 years, and a number of other folks who came with me from North Vancouver. I thank Richard, Kieran, Sandy, who ran all of Atlantic Canada for me very ably, and Erin Flanagan. I hope I am not missing somebody.
I thank Sabrina Kim, who sometimes drove me crazy, but she was one of the best communications directors I had.
It is because of folks like that that we are able to actually do our jobs in this place, and I was very fortunate to have amazingly dedicated, talented people.
Thank you.