Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being with us today. I appreciated your enthusiasm for dental care.
In your response to Ms. Atwin, you very correctly stated that the mouth is part of the body. I would add, more importantly—and here Mr. Genuis took great umbrage to that statement—I think what you were trying to get at is that oral health is integral to people's overall health. When people's teeth are in bad shape, eventually, they can end up in our hospitals and our emergency health system, and they can see a whole suite of really challenging situations.
I want to thank you for your support, but I have to say I am a bit confused, because in 2021, Jack Harris, my former colleague and a wonderful MP from St. John's East, brought forward a motion that read:
That, in the opinion of the House, the government should establish a federal dental care plan as soon as possible for Canadian families earning less than $90,000 per year who are not covered by a dental care plan...
I'm looking here at the voting record, and there's a Mr. Duclos who voted nay to that motion. I'm all for people having a change of heart, seeing the light and enjoying the road to Damascus. I'm just wondering what changed your mind.