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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I think I would align with the second part of your statement. Definitely it should be geared toward having more affordable products for customers. As to where the product comes from, I'm not sure that would align. I think the first mode of business should be getting more affordable product to customers within the north.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee That's okay. Thank you.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The mechanics are actually preprescribed for us. We get it. It's allocated to a product, and we just pass the amount right through to the customer. For the mechanics behind it and the formulaic approach, you'd probably have to speak to the nutrition north administration. Whatever we get is predetermined for the product, and we just pass it right through to the customer.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I think that would be a conversation with nutrition north to understand how we can start to align it more with some of those peak periods. Again, we're just a flow-through. We don't make the rules on how it gets administrated.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I would say the answer is yes. I'd love to expand on that more, because that's not the only place where climate change has impacted our business. In engineering and a number of other things, there have been significant negative impacts on our infrastructure within the communities we serve.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Can you just repeat the part about Australia?
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I'm not familiar with the Australian juice, but I can tell you that we absolutely go for the most economic products that we can to be able to pass on that value to our customer. If there's an Australian juice on there, I would imagine it's because it's selling. The customers are asking for it and it's a cost-effective solution for us to offer.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We don't have it in relation to Canadian products necessarily, but we do have it around indigenous-led and indigenous-managed companies. Actually, we've had some really strong success around that. As far as Canada is concerned, we're a proud Canadian company. By all means, all things being equal, we would definitely proceed with the Canadian company to be able to support that as best we could.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee My salary is listed in our information circular, so I would advise you, if you'd like to see it, to seek that online. I don't have it offhand.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Absolutely.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee That would also be in the same document, which I'd be happy to provide. It's a public document you can get online.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Again, I'd be able to get back to you with that information.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, definitely.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee First of all, that is a net.... That's before taxes and interest, but nonetheless it is also through our entire company. That is the profit for the entire company. You mentioned that it's from the subsidies, and we'll address that in just a moment; however, I can tell you that, in addition to that, we've invested $125 million.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee They're not connected, though, respectfully. They're not connected at all, because the profits are before taxes and interest, and the profits also come from the entire global company. I guess I can answer the question by saying that the subsidies are actually 100% passed through to the customer, so there's no correlation between the two.
May 8th, 2024Committee meeting
Dan McConnell