I think the key consideration in the change from the food mail program to nutrition north was to let the markets decide pricing. Competition was meant to replace the single Canada Post subsidy for freight.
Our communities are quite small. There usually are only two or three retailers selling food in a community, and even sometimes only one. Nutrition north changed that landscape quite significantly. I can't tell you.... I don't necessarily believe in the rebate at till numbers, so I'm not sure if that two litres of milk really would be $14 if there wasn't a food mail subsidy attached to it.
I'd love to be able to talk more and to understand more about what negative effects there might be for those who might not be eligible for a particular specified subsidy for those who are food-insecure, but really, we don't have the accountability or transparency to understand what those costs are at this moment.