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From YouTube: MARCH 2 2022 Statements Janet Routledge
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
burnby
north.
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
I
rise
to
honor
the
life
of
zoe
clemons.
I
met
zoe
about
15
years
ago.
She
was
teaching
a
watercolor
course
at
the
community-centered
college
for
retirees
in
burnaby.
While
we
painted
she
told
us
stories
like
how
she
met
tommy
douglas
at
her
mother's
kitchen
table
in
saskatchewan.
A
When
she
was
a
little
girl,
she
taught
us
to
practice
our
watercolor
technique
by
drawing
a
calendar
on
a
large
piece
of
watercolor
paper
and
then
painting
something
in
a
square.
Every
day.
Like
a
diary,
I
remembered
her
advice
and
that's
how
I
documented
my
experience
of
the
first
few
months
of
the
pandemic.
I
think
it
may
have
saved
my
sanity
zoe
and
I
met
again
after
I
became
an
mla.
A
A
She
was
present
at
the
saskatchewan
legislature
to
witness
tommy
douglas
being
sworn
in
as
the
first
ccf
premier,
and
you
know
that
famous
painting
of
the
suffragette
presenting
a
petition
in
1916
that
was
zoe's
grandmother
zoe
was
a
stand-up
comic,
a
laugh
lines,
regular.
She
was
a
black
belt
karate
instructor.
A
She
even
showed
me
some
of
her
moves,
but
I
think
what
her
children
most
want
us
to
remember
is
that
she
was
a
hard-working
single
mother
of
four
who
might
sit
all
evening
sewing
sequins
on
their
costumes,
who
slipped
poems
into
their
school
lunches
and
who
turned
them
into
a
marching
band
with
kitchen
pots
to
distract
them.
During
a
hurricane.