Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know we give different types of bursaries. I think it is the mail order for food and what not to a lot of our communities. Have they looked at whether we are ensuring healthy foods are being subsidized versus us paying for pop and chips and what not to go into these communities?

I believe in places such as Greenland and also Iceland, they have a specific program that will subsidize people if they make the attempt to bring in green products, vegetables and that type of stuff, but they will not pay...that is why over there, if you want to buy a can of pop, you will be paying five or six dollars because they will not cover the cost of transporting that stuff. The cost of vegetables and nutritional foods, milk products, are cheaper because the government subsidizes the cost of importing this food into the communities, which serves as a healthy balance. It is affordable. That is where I think we have a real problem in our communities. For a lot of our people who find themselves on income support, especially if you have a large family, to try to spread the money around to buy different products in our communities, it is too costly.

I would like to know if the department has looked at that or is there a possibility of doing a review or survey of the other northern countries who are implementing such a program when it comes to ensuring the nutritional value of the food we bring into the North, where this government pays for specific subsidies and also the Canada Post.

I would like to ask the Minister if they have looked at it or are considering it. Is this something that can be considered?