Sure. Thank you for that very important question. There's nothing more important than nutritious food for Canadians—young people, elders and seniors.
First of all, I'm very pleased that there is $121.7 million for nutrition north in the main estimates that are before you today. Through budget 2021, we also expanded the nutrition north program with an additional $163.5 million for funding, which was done in collaboration with indigenous partners to address food insecurity in the north.
The issue of food insecurity is a long-standing issue. It's not going to be solved by one program. It has to involve a whole-of-government approach. It has to involve territorial governments, indigenous governments, the business sector and the non-profit sector to look for creative solutions and innovation.
We're very proud of the harvesters support grant that we co-developed with indigenous nations about a year and a half ago. Over the last year alone over 5,500 harvesters, over 150 hunts and over 120 food-sharing initiatives were supported by the harvesters support grant.
To more directly answer your question on food being out of date, that's not acceptable. I can follow up with you after this meeting and with the public service to get more detail so that we can get you a more precise answer.
I do know that we have a nutrition north advisory committee. We are constantly consulting on how we make the program better. I'll be the first to admit that it's very good, but there's always room for improvement.
We will talk.