Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 208, there is a line item, "Egg marketing levy." There is no money attached to it this year, but in previous years, I see in 2017-2018, there was $35,000. For those people who don't know, the commercial egg market is supply-managed. That means commercial production is regulated federally. Producers are allocated a quota through a designated body, the egg producers of Canada. In the NWT, the GNWT is actually the holder of that quota. They don't produce eggs, though. They allow other producers to produce eggs.

This line item here is the egg marketing levy. As the name suggests, that money comes from the egg producers in the territory through the Egg Farmers of Canada back to the holder of the quota, the GNWT, and is supposed to be used for marketing made-in-the-NWT eggs. In the past years, it has just gone into the GNWT's general coffers. I am not quite sure why this is because we do produce eggs in the territory. There is a farm. There is an egg supplier. There is a board. Everything is in place here, yet this money, even though it is not much money, goes into the general coffers and does not go to the egg producers board so they can actually advertise made-in-the-NWT eggs. That is why you never see a made-in-the-NWT eggs advertisement anywhere, you don't see stand-up posters in the grocery store, you don't see ads in magazines unless people have paid for them out of their own pocket.

This year, there is no money attached to this. I am of the understanding that that is because the Agricultural Products Marketing Council has been reinstated by the GNWT. In regulations, this marketing money, for some reason, goes to this Agricultural Products Marketing Council, which is a body that I believe was intended to settle disputes in the industry. I am not sure if there are disputes, but this is all something that can be clarified here once I am done my question or the setup. This money that is coming from the egg marketing levy is going to fund this board instead of going to promote NWT eggs. I guess my question is: why is that the case? Thank you, Mr. Chair.