 Well, I think that the key points I want to make are that I didn't wait till K to 12 I was very fortunate to have really good early childhood development for two main reasons One is that I went to a really good YMCA daycare at Mount Pleasant and we did We were thought we were just playing but we were doing early childhood development And so when I arrived at kindergarten, I was already ready to you know ready to go with some basic competencies and so So I think that's something we need to look at is how can we make sure kids are better prepared for Even for kindergarten and so you know with my kids were focused a lot on early childhood development because that brain development between two And six is critical and I in retrospect I was fortunate to get this and one of the reasons why is because Some of you may have had Margot Iverson as a teacher. She's been a professor at the U of A and education for Almost 30 years now. She's retiring. She was a high school English teacher before she got her PhD and so So this was important for her and she's been studying me my whole life So if you've had her as a teacher, you've heard her talk about me at great length. She's very proud of me Which is very sweet, but you know, she knew how important this kind of interaction was They nurtured Creativity around the dinner table. I knew what pedagogy was when I was going into kindergarten I didn't couldn't really explain it, but it was a word. I'd heard and it was something we talked about So so I was primed well and then Something really interesting happened in 1984. Remember what Canada was like in 1984. This was when I entered kindergarten and Think about the strife in the country Pietro dough was was the prime minister still on the way out This was right after the national energy policy multicultural policy was very controversial and Somehow my parents were the kind of people who said we should put dawn in French immersion So think about how strange a decision that would be in Alberta in 1984 to put your kids in French immersion. So They valued and thought that the second language learning would be good for me And I think it was but something else happened that was really interesting By implication which is that I was in a class full of kids whose parents were also the kind of people who thought it would be kind of fun to put their kids in French immersion in 1984 and so this was actually a pretty interesting group of kids and And they've gone on actually to do some pretty extraordinary work in health in the arts In academics and I'm still in touch with a lot of these kids It was really a tightly knit group of kids that came through McKernan With me which is where my son is going to start kindergarten next Tuesday taken French just like his old man and So I was very fortunate once I once I got there to have some some wonderful teachers and they you know nurtured my curiosity of course and All the way through to to high school where again I was I don't know if I was just lucky to have phenomenal teachers or I think that teachers are phenomenal people because of what they choose to do and the way they they try to shape a generation and and You know you have to be a kind of a patient person and a curious person and a very caring person I think to be a teacher and I'm biased because I have this idea of my mom as like the prototypical the you know the platonic ideal of the teacher right and and so she's tried to Replicate herself and her values out there as a professor for 30 years And so I like to imagine there's all these people out there who care about Children's development and their success and nurturing their curiosity and she was instrumental in a lot of the curriculum development for for English language arts that's about discovery and about creativity and about multimodal learning and all of these different things and so I grew up around this stuff and And so it's been interesting for me and it's made me very conscientious as a parent but but to know that there are all these people out there who she's helped to shape is is You know inspires me and then just one other thought here before I expire the time is One of the reasons why my my wife and I chose to stay in Edmonton when most of our friends Especially some of these successful friends of mine who I grew up with Didn't feel like Edmonton was the place where they could be successful was because when we started thinking about having a family one of the most important decisions for us is Being able to send our kids to the best public schools in the world Which are right here and it's because of you folks and a lot of great decisions that have built that system And yes, it could be better. Yes, it could be better Capitalized it should be because it's our best competitive advantage for the long term to attract people here and to build an economy And a citizenry of tomorrow that can compete