Mr. Speaker, the wine industry is vital to the economic prosperity of the interior and in fact the whole of British Columbia.
The advanced instrumentation and the research facility being funded at the Okanagan University College by my department, as announced by my colleague, the Minister of the Environment, will enable advanced research and innovation and thereby lead to increased production of grapes and the production of the highest quality of wine and thereby make the wine industry in the region very competitive in the world market.
It is about building a 21st century economy.