Tell me about some of these conversations you've been having and where have you been having them?

So far, I've been campaigning mostly Campbell River, Quadra, and then we did have an event on Quadra where we invited folks from Cortez.

I know that's not ideal.

It does require them to travel, but it was open to them.

Otherwise, it's been meetings on Zoom like this or going to people.

or having them come to our campaign office.

I've had a few really great phone conversations with some Indigenous leaders from up north.

are you referring to other than showing up to a meeting?

Do you want to talk a little bit about that?

Back in Montreal, I spent some time working for the YMCA as the Director of Child Development, which was really exciting and an opportunity for me to discover and learn more about the not-for-profit sector.

about community organizations and the services and the programs that they deliver for some of our most vulnerable community members, but also how those spaces can be community hubs for families, for seniors that really support their development in many ways, not just in terms of their health, but in terms of their emotional health, mental health, offering barrier-free programming.

I started off my career after university.

I missed Concordia University, so I went back as an employee.

And my role there was in student recruitment, broadly speaking, and communications.

That allowed me to support learners at every stage in achieving their educational goals and work with them to understand what it is that they wanted to be when they grow up, but also finding pathways because sometimes those pathways weren't clear to them.

Do you want to give examples where you found it necessary to stand up and say no?