The importance of decisive, informed decision-making was hammered home to me then, and that experience is with me now. And that experience resonates with the economic challenges that I see in my electorate and as a country as a whole, as we seek a path beyond COVID. An economic rebound that leaves the most disadvantaged behind and that locks young people out of work and homeownership is a mirage. It might look good in the business pages, but if it fails where it counts, in our homes and in our communities, then it's not worth the paper it's written on.