Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Their corporate images are important to them as well. They will pass it on, we believe, but we'll also have the accounting and control mechanisms to ensure it happens.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  On the cash registry too.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It will be on the cash register receipt, the amount of...the rate per community. It will not do the math for you, but you'll be able to know that your community is receiving $3, or whatever the amount might be, of subsidy for goods.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We know that it will be more affordable. That's the intent of the program. We'll be measuring that through the reports coming back from the suppliers. Right now, though, under the current program, we subsidize a lot of non-perishable and non-food items, which would be part of th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That would be the point-of-sale technology. The amount of subsidy going to the community generally will be put on the sales receipt. And we'll be auditing the reports coming in from the wholesalers and retailers to ensure that it is passed onward. We're under discussions right n

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It will be the same rate.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. We'll have to go through the process of wholesalers and retailers applying to get on the list to be able to supply people who want to buy through personal orders. For the small businesses, they can use that process to get products from a larger wholesaler, for instance, and w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The current food mail program is a transportation subsidy. The new program is a retail subsidy. Their practices may start shifting towards buying products in their communities and getting the subsidies at the store locally, as opposed to having to go remotely to get it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're still working out the details with Treasury Board on the arrangements and detail. However, under any contribution arrangement that is put into place by the Government of Canada, there is still the right of audit. There will be the requirement for information flowing from th