Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to use my Member’s statement today to thank the Minister of ITI for coming down to Hay River on Friday and opening up the new federally certified egg grading plant. I’d also like to congratulate John and Janet Penner and Bruce Ramage on their investment in this facility in the egg industry. I’d like to also extend congratulations to the Wallington family for their hard work, and our local operators of the facility: Glen, Mike and Kevin. Thank you very much.
It’s a great news story for a northern business to be able to put northern products on northern tables. It’s a good luck story. It’s one of the first opportunities I’ve had to do a grand opening as an MLA. We need to produce more of this stuff. We are putting eggs on northern tables. We’re making ourselves more sustainable. We’re not depending on other provinces or other producers.
I’d also like to encourage… And I will have questions for the Minister about strengthening other areas.
I think we need to use northern products that are being produced and putting them on northern tables, such as I’ve brought to this House before in the fishing industry area where we have a great opportunity on the Great Slave Lake. This is a renewable resource that they’ve assessed and they know we have a sustainable product there. We need to get this product out on the tables in the North. We need to do more production in the North, selling in the North, selling to our northern facilities.
Again, I’d like to congratulate those people that have been involved in the Polar Eggs, and we look forward to seeing those eggs, hopefully, out on the tables, they tell me, as early as December.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. The Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Moses.
