Ms. Lisa MacLeod: I am thrilled to be delivering this tribute to Walter Baker while my friend, Maureen Tourangeau is here; she was a big supporter of his, and my colleague, Norm Sterling, worked with him when they were both members for, what, at the time would have been Grenville-Carleton, and my colleague behind me, from Leeds-Grenville would have also remembered the great service of Walter Baker, who was the former government House leader and Minister of Revenue for Joe Clark's government.

He also served our community, which would later become Nepean-Carleton, so well that people still tear when they think of him and the great community man that he was. In fact, our mutual friend, Cathy Boswell, will often tear up when she talks about the great contributions of this man.

A friend of mine, Wendy Fuller, who is about the same age as me, has a picture of Walter Baker and a note he sent to her, framed in her house, to show her children what a great man this was. My own assistant, Helen Byers who, by the way, is 70 years old, would often say, "There was a great man in Walter Baker."

Why am I bringing him to the chamber today? Well, 27 years ago he passed from cancer; three years before that, one of the greatest institutions in Barrhaven, where I represent, the Walter Baker Centre was built and named in his honour for this great, great Canadian. I just felt it was fitting today, as we've got representatives from the Canadian Cancer Society here, as well as my colleagues, who I know Walter Baker touched, to say thank you to a man who I never met but was fortunate to become, later in life, very good friends with his own daughter, Nancy Baker.

I think everyone in this place aspires to the type of legend that Walter Baker was. For those of you at home in this chamber today, I urge you to read up on Walter Baker or even former members in your community, whether it is federal or provincial, to see the type of legacy that they leave on these places.