Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To give you a short and sweet answer, we are planning to build a warehouse in Puvirnituq, in my home community, and that warehouse will cost us $2 million. The whole point, as you know, is that during the short summer season, when we ship up all this construction material and t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would be, if we had a warehouse. That's my first answer. It always depends what it is. For pie filling, it would be one year, but I cannot see anything healthy after one year. How can you have a...?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's six months.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We would certainly consider that if there was infrastructure. There is a housing crunch up north. All the houses are filled to capacity. There is no infrastructure, Mr. Chairman.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the north, because we found out in July that some items were not going to be on the list anymore for October 3, we decided to have a shot at this. We decided that we would put items on the last sealift that can be on the shelf for two months; in other words, we packed the ship

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have been trying to brainstorm how we are going to do this. We have communities that have only 200 people. We're talking about 14 communities. Can they afford a $2 million warehouse? With bigger stores, it's easier, and at least they can afford more. But smaller communities, h

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the Nunavik area, we only have one airline and that's Air Inuit. There is no competition. So we have to negotiate with them. We have no choice. Where we will hurt the most is in the warehousing. Canned food, for example, will have to be stored. We're going to have to put the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Very easily. Some communities are bigger and some are smaller. In all cases, it will cost a lot to build the warehouses in those communities.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In our case, I come from northern Quebec, where we have 14 Inuit communities. We're a smaller group than his is in Nunavut. It is a lot more vast. Because we are a cooperative movement, it's easier for us to move country food from each community to another. A co-op from Akulivik

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One thing we do have, although I'm not sure whether they have it in each community, is a huge community walk-in freezer that we use to share our food. Each community has a walk-in freezer. They put the animals that they do not eat at home into the community freezer, and people fr

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're in the cooperative movement. We have 14 co-ops, and I'd like to inform you that when the cooperative movement first started out, they decided that the cost in each community would be the same. The northernmost community, Salluit, will not suffer because it's the furthest no

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Another easy one is Pampers. That has to do with cleanliness and hygiene, which has 29 items on the list. The current selling price is $18.69. The selling price will be $20.19. I don't know who in Canada can afford $20 diapers.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I wanted to point out that some of the basic things that we enjoy down here in the south will be double or triple the price up north. For example, since we all have children or grandchildren, maybe Heinz ketchup should be the first one on the list. The new selling price will be $

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon, everyone. My name is Rita Novalinga, and I am the general manager of the federation of co-ops in Nunavik. Thank you for your invitation to the Nutrition North Canada study. Since I have only five minutes, I'll go straight to the poi