Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. The wild food in my community is very important because there is a proof there. My dad and my mom are still living. They're both 80 years old. All they eat is caribou meat and fish, and all the food that they use is the tea and sugar from the store, and they're way healthier

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a difference between Fort Smith and Fond du Lac and Uranium City. Fort Smith has an all-weather road. It comes in from Edmonton. Where we live, it's a fly-in community and that's it. In the winter, you might drive for three months out of a year on the ice road, but the wa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start and Darryl can help me. I know that there has been a subsidized food program for a long, long time, but we have never noticed any difference. If you look at it price-wise, I know that it was subsidized, but I agree with the gentleman there. What he said was right. He

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon. I am Chief Napoleon Mercredi from Fond du Lac First Nation and I have with me the corporate executive officer, the CEO, of Fond du Lac First Nation. I would like to thank the chair and committee members and the minister and the staff for giving us an opportunity