I agree with all the comments made by my colleagues here. I think communication is key to building relationships and trust amongst us. I do like to talk, but I am also a fairly active listener. I know that that was something that was commented to me during the forums, that I was always interested in listening to what others had to say.
My parents were educators. My dad was a principal and my mom was a teacher, the first in their families to go to school. So, for us, I was always taught to be a life-long learner, and one of the things that I realized coming into this process was how little I actually know. In the last, say, two months, even including the campaign, it's been one of the steepest learning curves of my life, and so I already have the mindset to come in here and learn from all of you and every one of you. If I end up in Cabinet as a first-time and there is someone who has been in Cabinet before, I'm going to go to them and ask them, how does this get done, if I have a question or a concern.
So my plan is just to go in and continue to talk to everyone. I was actually really shocked when I came in to realize that the Cabinet offices were in one section of the building and the Regular MLAs were in another; to me, that struck me as really an odd situation for a consensus-style government. I actually think that it would probably do better to have staggered Cabinet-Regular-Cabinet-Regular, and then that would force that interaction. I can guarantee you, I will also be walking the hallway. I will be coming to all of you. I know I'm not an expert; as an engineer, I'm liability-adverse, so I'm not going to say something I don't know. I plan for all of you to teach me those things. Thank you.