Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll defer to Mary on the education side of things.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, at this point, there are pockets of funding and there are pockets of resources that would go towards projects such as the one you've indicated in Nunavik. A lot of them are ad hoc. They seem to be case by case. As I mentioned earlier, unfortunately right now there's nothing

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may, I'll jump in here. I think the program that Mr. Parry identified from CanNor is one that's probably the most front and centre. One of the things we've had a lot discussions on with indigenous communities is the utilization of the harvesters support grant and whether

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our 2019 data should be posted on the departmental website fairly soon. The northern Saskatchewan communities that are eligible for Nutrition North would have benefited from the $25 million that was injected into the program, dating back effective as of May 2021, so that's the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When it comes to the harvesters support grant, it's still fairly early days. The money just started to roll out in April, so we will be collecting data from our recipient organizations as they go along. It is a five-year project. In terms of the retail subsidy, we track expendi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What we've found, generally speaking, is an uptake of the program by community members. The data that we've been collecting so far seems to indicate an increase in the shipment of food throughout the Nutrition North Canada area, and that probably is a result of a number of factor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are two things. One is that we have the northern food basket. We track the overall price of that food basket as is a representative sample to make sure that the prices are maintained or lowered over time. That's one of the big metrics. The second is that we follow quite cl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning. I'm speaking to you today from the traditional territory of the Algonquin people here in lovely downtown Gatineau. I want to thank you very much for the invitation to speak to you about the important work being done within the northern af

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Those discussions or innovations are ongoing, and I think as technology advances those will become more viable, but we're still dealing with immediate challenges. Communities are looking for simple solutions now, but, certainly, we're approached all the time with airships, drones

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It could be Transport or Infrastructure, and I think the Government of Nunavut itself would have responsibility for some of that infrastructure. This goes back to the point that addressing food security is multi-jurisdictional. It's complex and we need lots of different partners

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You asked earlier what my wish list is. Certainly, my wish list has always been to make things more streamlined and efficient. I'm more than in favour of that. It's about looking at efficiencies.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The old food mail program was a transportation subsidy. When we changed the program to nutrition north, we made it a retail subsidy. One rationale for that was to allow the retailers the greatest flexibility to negotiate their own transportation costs. That's how the program was

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a fair point. One of the challenges we have is the on-the-ground perception that retailers aren't passing it on. We did respond to the Auditor General's report in 2014 with a number of initiatives, including point of sale and the audits. It's something that's ongoing, an

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the outreach to Ag Canada and other departments would be the most appropriate at this point. In our engagements, we're always looking for innovations to address food security. If the chief or other regional partners have some ideas, we're always interested in looking at t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What's been happening in the north has been isolated and from the ground up, and there are different realities for different communities. We've heard about the example in Dawson City. We've had examples of community gardens in Inuvik. We've had examples of the containers that you