Mr. Speaker, I want to join my colleagues in congratulating you and thanking you for all your years of service. I promise you I will not get as carried away as I did in my last speech, whatever I might be thinking. I know I have a strong personality and I am, above all, passionate. I am from the Saguenay and I have a Latin background, which is why I become red so easily. I have a fiery temperament.
You have been passionate in your role as well. We have enjoyed your interventions in presiding over our work. I also want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate your wife, Jo-Anne, whom I had the opportunity to meet during activities, with you, of course—I do not want there to be any misunderstanding—outside the parliamentary precinct. I enjoyed meeting her. Often we forget to acknowledge how important our spouses are in the work that we do. Without a spouse's support, we cannot survive in this job for very long.