We feel that the northern food basket is not a measure of the nutrition north program for a number of reasons we state in the audit report.
First of all, the food that is subsidized under the nutrition north program is not the same food that's in the northern food basket, so from that point of view, it's different. Similarly, there are about 30 retailers who are not included in the calculation of the food basket. Also, the information is collected for the food basket, but it's not verified. The department doesn't make sure that the information it's collecting is in fact the right information.
We feel that there are enough weaknesses in the northern food basket that.... Certainly it can tell you about what's happening—assuming that all the data it's collecting is right—with the items that are included in the northern food basket, but that doesn't necessarily translate into what's happening under the nutrition north program.