BARBARA EDMONDS (Labour—Mana): Today, 17 February, marks four months since the general election. Around this time, four months ago, I was with my hairdresser, Chrissy, a proud Mana small-business owner. I was discussing with her my nervousness around the election results, that you can never count your chickens before they hatch, and the benefits of having a curl versus a straighten. But besides the skill that hairdressers and barbers possess, I've held a belief for a long time that hairdressers and barbers are a good gauge of the temperature within their community; the stories, the secrets, and the number of clients that they must counsel over the years are worthy of a TV show. Chrissy and I would have regular catch-ups every six weeks, and she would share what she was seeing as a small-business owner in the COVID world, what she was hearing from her clients, and, overall, what the sentiment on the ground was. 