I could say that it is clear from the studies we have done that the three major barriers to consuming healthy foods such as vegetables, fruit, and milk, as reported by community residents, are price, quality, and availability. That's been established from baseline surveys in our pilot communities and an additional survey in Labrador. Those are aspects of the food supply that we're dealing with specifically through this program. But on its own, even if food mail service was free, rather than 80ยข a kilogram, which is the rate charged, I'm not sure food would even be affordable at that rate.
On December 6th, 2007. See this statement in context.