Thank you very much, Mr. Louis. That's a great question. Thank you for your interest also in indigenous food sovereignty.
I think the primary point is that it's about people defining their own food systems. Indigenous peoples, no matter where they were in the Americas, traditionally had control over their food systems. The indigenous food sovereignty movement is about reclaiming that control over traditional foods and country foods and being able to distribute, grow and harvest traditional foods within their own indigenous food lands as some call this.
As a result, we've seen lower costs, because.... Of course, imposing a southern diet particularly in remote and rural regions in northern environments is unwise, and the health consequences are often not very good and are, in fact, terrible.
The indigenous food sovereignty movement, whether it's up north or whether it's in southern latitudes.... Most first nations and Métis people are in southern latitudes actually, not in northern latitudes, and many of them are close to big urban areas.
My answer to your question would be that it is the approach. We have been critical of nutrition north as a program. I know the intentions are good, but nutrition north has sometimes reinforced these more colonial approaches. Really, it's about first nations, Métis and Inuit communities reclaiming and having control over their own distance. There are also innovations happening. There are low-input greenhouses being developed all over northern remote regions, etc.