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It’s fair to say my trip to New Brunswick last month didn’t get off to the best start. I bought a bottle of Coke Zero as I was boarding a flight to Fredericton on Sunday night. While taking a sip, I knocked my front tooth, breaking an old filling. With two and a half jam-packed days ahead, starting Monday with a 7:30 am TV appearance, followed by five speeches and big meetings with New Brunswick’s finance minister and premier, looking like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber with half a front tooth wasn’t the way I wanted to start my visit.

Thankfully, my colleague Mary Wilson pulled off a minor miracle while I was in the air and found a dentist who was kind enough to open his clinic late on a Sunday night to help me out. Not only did Dr. Lance Schaefer expertly fix my tooth without staff to help, but he even volunteered to pick me up at the airport.

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It was a humbling display of Atlantic hospitality and an embodiment of the small business spirit in this country.