Hon RON MARK (Minister of Defence): Mr Speaker, thank you very much for the opportunity. It's with great sadness, actually, that I stand to rise to speak about a friend—a friend of mine personally, a man I came to love and respect, and a man whom my children came to know as Uncle Mike. I guess, looking around the House, there are quite so many new MPs around here, or MPs who haven't been here as long as some of us have, who probably may not recall that, actually, I stood for Labour in 1993. In 1990, I got to know Mike because I'd been roped in by my then mother-in-law, my late mother-in-law, Marie Therese Berry—and I just note I'm going from the shoulder. I started writing notes, but it just seemed irrelevant to write notes right now, so I'm just going to talk. 