In Newfoundland and Labrador, we don't have calorie data, but I can tell you a few things. We know that the vast majority of the food eaten by folks in our province is brought in from outside. We don't have an exact read on it, but it's somewhere between 75% and 90%. However, I think what we miss when we use that number is that we also have the highest rate of wild food access of any province. Everyone I know either fishes or hunts, or knows someone who does, and a lot of people are producing their own food outside of the market economy. We're not counting food that's grown in roadside gardens on the highway, if you've ever driven up the Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland, and stuff like that.
I think for most people in Atlantic Canada, it's true that we'll always be in a global food system and that most of our calories will always come from outside of it, but we have to be careful not to let that swamp the thinking about how to make the local food system stronger within the share that it is still making up.