This is one of the changes from the old food mail program. We put in place an advisory board to help advise the minister on all aspects of the program. All the details of their terms of reference are available online on the nutrition north website, so people can read it there.
It consists of up to seven members—I believe there are currently four—and a technical adviser. They're people who represent the north and who live in the north. They meet at least three times a year in person and when they meet in person they have an event that's open to the public, and then they meet by phone fairly frequently as well.
Their objectives are to draw on the experience and expertise of organizations and individuals involved in transportation, distribution, nutrition, public health, government agencies, community development, and retail—it's a long list of those engaged in the provision to northern communities that they're supposed to gather information from—and to advise the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs on various matters, including, but not exclusive to, program performance, communications and public awareness, health and nutrition strategies, transportation systems, food supply chain management, food pricing, and food eligibility.