Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Bloc Québécois, I am delighted to congratulate Véronique Rivest, of Gatineau, who was awarded the distinction of best sommelier in Canada by the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers.
Ms. Rivest won the award on September 16, 2006, at the Institut du Tourisme et d'Hôtellerie du Québec, in Montreal, which hosted the first edition of Canada’s best sommelier competition. She will represent Canada at the world’s best sommelier competition in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2007. Ms. Rivest also won the title of best sommelier in Quebec in May of this year.
We wish Gatineau's Véronique Rivest the best of luck at the international competition; we would love to see her win this prestigious award.