'It is the privilege of a lifetime': Chris Scott sworn in as MPP

On Monday Chris Scott was officially sworn in as the MPP for Sault Ste. Marie. 

"It is the privilege of a lifetime to represent our community at Queen's Park, and I am ready to get it done for the people of Sault Ste Marie!" Scott said on Facebook on Tuesday. 

He beat out NDP candidate Lisa Vezeau-Allen in a historically close election on Feb. 27.

Looking back, Scott said he was "confident, but never overly confident" heading into election night, given how close the race was.

"I was confident and proud of the campaign that we had run, and extremely proud of our focus on on the issues and the work that we'd done," he told SooToday. "I always knew it was going to be extremely close."

Scott said being sworn in on Monday was an "extremely humbling" experience, where he learned he was the 1,980th elected into the assembly since Confederation.

"When you think about all the people that have been in Ontario, lived in Ontario ... I thought that was, for me, anyways, a big impact," he said. "Taking the oath to the King yesterday made it extremely real. It was great to get that out of the way, and now hit the ground running."

In his first official days as the MPP for Sault Ste. Marie, Scott hopes to start tackling issues he heard from constituents on the campaign trail.

"I want to run as hard as humanly possible at a lot of what I was hearing at the doors," he said. "I had some great meetings with the mayor and a couple other local leaders on on both the tariff front and health care front, and (I've) been meeting with a few postsecondary education stakeholders to ... make sure we're going where we need to go."