Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also strongly support the motion and I'd like to just go back and say that everybody else in this House, when we were new here, we had no one to go to, we went to him. You can tell by going to his office, the rug is very worn.

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It's almost white from so many going into his office. He really helped us when we first got here. I'd like to thank him for that. I'll give you a good example of how much he meant to this House. When the Board of Management got the word that he was going to resign we had to make a decision on whether we should accept his resignation or not. At that time we said, well, we discussed that he had a lot of knowledge and he had experience and he was a walking encyclopedia. So I said, well, we'll accept his resignation on only one condition. That he leaves his head here because that's where all the knowledge is.

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Anyway, I'd like to thank David for leaving us with a lot of knowledge. Thank you.

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