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One of the extra challenges on this was not only do I have a full-time job that takes up all my time at the same time as I was doing this, and a family that doesn’t see enough of me. But I got to do it twice, because I did it in French as well.

Q. So how did that work? In which language did you write the book first?

A. Because of the way things were set up, I told most of the stories in English and that formed the first draft. Once I had rewritten and reworked every chapter with an editor working it out, we then sent it to a translator. Then I got back the translation and put it into my words. So it was a little extra work but it was important for me that this book be as authentically me in English as in French.

Q. We learn a lot about you at 24 Sussex, growing up in that bubble. And you’re now in politics. For someone who hasn’t been raised in that milieu, what do they need to know about what you went through as a child?

A. I think what’s most important to me as I look back, but also as I look forward to what I might be putting my kids through in the coming years — what was essential was how my parents raised me to understand that what we were surrounded with came with a responsibility. That we couldn’t start thinking as kids that we were better than any of our classmates at Rockcliffe Park Public School. That this was something that had to do with service. That we were in that house because my father was serving our country. And that we had a responsibility to live up to that service. We couldn’t take it for granted.