Okay, thank you.
I also thank you, Doctor, for raising the issue of the aboriginal population. I represent the riding of downtown Winnipeg, with a huge off-reserve aboriginal population. And I recognize and believe it is a socio-economic factor, that it takes a fair amount of economic stability to eat well. If you're spending your weekly food budget in Seven Eleven instead of in a full supermarket in the suburbs that has more choices, it really does manifest itself in the children I see.
My wife teaches a program in the inner city called wiggle, giggle and munch that takes babies.... Have you heard of it, Doctor? Oh, really. It's very cheap. For $5,000 you get 18 sessions with these moms who teach babies how to start moving, and it teaches moms how to encourage babies to get them moving. So it doesn't take much.
Getting back to the reserve issue, one thing that's come up is that flying beer into reserves is subsidized. You pay the same price for a case of beer in downtown Winnipeg as on a remote reserve, whereas four litres of milk is $18. I was on a fly-in reserve recently where four bruised apples were wrapped in a package, and it was $8.50 for four unappetizing-looking apples.
Have you heard people talking about ways to make good food more available? Is that something we have to address as well?