Health committee  I'll just reinforce that we need better research, and research that's done well. For indigenous people, we need more information about how to get them to use more of their traditional food, and how to have better food for them to buy. They have to have access to it.

Health committee  Yes, I would simply like to add a word about some of the marketing policies of the food stores that supply these communities in Nunavut and across the north. I've seen the shelves, I've seen the lower shelves where children come in with their $2.50 for lunch and walk out with chi

Health committee  This information is coming from a Quebec first nations health survey that was recently released. The issue is that when indigenous peoples move into the urban area, they stop eating their traditional food, and the market food they have available to them is much more diverse. In t

Health committee  There is going to be a separate food guide for first nations, Inuit, and Métis, and that is now under development.

Health committee  Thank you very much. I'm very pleased to be here and to be able to present to you some of the work we have done at our centre over the years. The first point I want to call to your attention is something that I tell my students every year in a nutrition and society course. We ar