Nutrition north is a program that helps the people of the Northwest Territories and the other territories. Food insecurity is starting to be a very big problem. When we were growing up the only way people who lived in the small communities could survive was by traditional harvesting off the land. They'd catch all their food. They would hunt and fish and trap. Now some of the wildlife populations are at risk. For example, caribou used to be a mainstay of people's diets; now we ban by almost 100% the hunting of caribou. We have a small number of tags that we make available to the Tlicho and the Yellowknives Dene people. For the most part, people have to go and buy their food from the store or grow their own food. If you buy food from the store, it's very expensive. Steaks and pork chops are not cheap.
Nutrition north has had some issues, but certainly it helps the people of the north survive.