Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise to say that I will be supporting the motion. It’s new and unique and almost like an emerging opportunity for the communities to work with the experienced mushroom pickers that do come up from down south, and hopefully we can
learn from it and make it our own homegrown industry there.
Even with business, we say you have to work with Aboriginal communities, you have to work with Aboriginal businesses, and I think this is another fine example of it. The motion is just calling for the Minister to act quickly – there is potentially a boom in mushrooms this coming summer – to just set up some regulations or some kind of instrument that the people who are coming from the South to work with the communities, to set some regulations around it. The concern, of course, is that experience has shown in other jurisdictions that when they’re unregulated, they do leave garbage behind on their picking sites, so those are the kinds of things we want to voice. Thank you very much.