Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to rise today to mark World Egg Day, which takes place on Friday.
We are talking here about a local product that feeds our people and helps revitalize our regions. I start every day with an egg. It is a nutritious, high quality food that will help anyone get through the day. Egg farmers have good reason to be proud of their work.
At such a critical time, when we are seeing how urgent food sovereignty is, it would be nice if the government showed its appreciation and respect for egg farmers by giving them the full compensation they were promised two years ago. Obviously, I want to mention supply management. Talk is all well and good, but it seems to me that World Egg Day would be the perfect time to announce support. It is time the government kept its word.
Until then, family farmers from Berthier—Maskinongé and the rest of Quebec will keep up their great work.
Happy World Egg Day.