I also touched on the other element: dealing with being able to look at the cost of food. It is going up. We do have a major cost for transportation — goods and services into communities by air, by road. Again, those costs are passed on to the consumers.

I’d like to ask the Minister how we’re going to look at the food prices as part of this review in light of your energy costs, and also the costs in regard to consumption. I talked to the mayor of Paulatuk, who told me that a case of 12 cans of pop is $60. You look at milk in Tuktoyaktuk; for 2 litres it’s $10. And those costs are going to go up.

So I’d like to know if you are also looking at the food-consumption costs in those communities and if there are ways we can work around that.