Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Building a warehouse in the province of Quebec or in Ottawa is too expensive. If transportation costs are taken into consideration, imagine how much it would cost to build a warehouse in Nunavut. In Quebec, building a storage facility already costs millions of dollars. We are tal

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You're right, doing a cost analysis would be important. Quality is nevertheless an issue, as I said earlier. Warehousing is important, but we must be careful when deciding what to store for a year. Would you order groceries a year in advance? Would you buy a year's supply of ket

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The current problem is that we are told to consult the website, which doesn't actually provide answers to any of the questions I asked you earlier. In the document I'll send you, I listed seven questions for which no answers have been provided. As a retailer, I must personally ne

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is the biggest concern. Products in our grocery stores have expiration dates on them, be they cookies or canned goods. All products have best-before dates. Even we, the grocers, must be very careful. Everyone here checks the expiration dates on canned goods. If we here, in O

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Oui.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would like to add something in closing. You talk about building warehouses in various locations, so that products can be delivered by boat. That would be less expensive, according to the lady who left earlier. It's true that some products that can be sent by boat, such as Tide

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I did not really understand your question.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We cannot answer that question right now. The nutrition north Canada program is not ready. We are really in the dark. How much will it cost? What subsidies will customers get? As we speak, we know what subsidies Canada Post's customers will get in their orders. We do not know wha

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  He cannot answer the question, and I am not sure whether madam can either, but we are eager to find out. We want to know what will happen. What are we supposed to tell our customers when they ask us what will happen in April 2011? It is fast approaching, and we have no answers. W

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of the quality of the products we ship up north, we get very few complaints. The biggest complaint we get is that these people no longer have access to a lot of products. Many of them have been taken off the eligibility list under the nutrition north Canada program. As f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me. My name is Peter Fogarty, and I am the owner of Marché Central du Nord, a company that has been around for more than 20 years. We ship groceries to people in northern communities, more specifically, nurses, doctors and people in Iqal