Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank my colleague Ms. Bisaro for bringing this bill forward. I also support it. We live in a day
and age when few have much, and there is a segment of our population, in fact of our world, that has very little. This is an opportunity, I believe, to share in a meaningful way.
I was raised in a family business, which was a grocery store and meat market. We had a big family to take stuff home to when it was past its best before date. Many times there’s really nothing wrong with these things, yet merchants and food outlets cannot sell things beyond a certain date — really perfectly good food that just is overripe. It’s a shame. It’s an absolute shame in our society to see such things go to waste. So to bring forward a progressive piece of legislation like this that would allow people to have their needs met with something which otherwise would be thrown out is very encouraging to me. I wholeheartedly support this legislation.