Member for vernon monashi, thank you, honorable speaker and before I begin my statement, I would like to wish happy vasaki and ramadan mubarak to many british british colombians, I'm pleased to celebrate creative industries week in bc. Today, I want to share with you a story of resilience from a motion picture industry. Last spring. There was a global shutdown of physical production, but the local crews did not sit still together. The guilds, the unions, production companies, industry associations and government work together on a safe, restart plan.

Because of this work we were one of the first jurisdiction to restart production and, more importantly, we're considered one of the safest location to film in north america.

The result is bc has had record-breaking production since reopening, including hitting an all-time high of 60 productions underway at one time last fall, for example, last year in vernon with hosted productions such as under a lover's moon and love on the wine productions in our region are supported by professionals at the okanagan film commission.

We are so fortunate to have such talent and dedication to this industry in the okanagan and across bc. So I want to take a moment and recognize the daily efforts of people like john summerland film, commissioner for okanagan films, gina sherritt and her crew, who work style, uh hostile, hair in full ppe, cassandra lacroix, who does makeup in full ppe and laura clark who became their sets, kovid 19 safety supervisor to keep others safe.

These are just a few of the thousands of british colombians who have adopted their daily work to protect people while creating the world-class content. Please join me in honoring all the people working in the motion pic picture industry who are working hard to keep creating safely to produce the content that has given us all comfort while we stay home happy creative industries week. Thank you.