Mr. Speaker, today I’m happy to be supporting, as seconder, the motion on the Food Mail Program. Not all constituents can use this program. The high cost of food in our communities, our elders having to pay the high cost of food that’s available, which is half-rotten half the time, for produce and stuff like that…. I think it’s a shame that larger families have to pay such a high cost of living due to caribou shortages and restrictions to hunting. We’re having to rely on Alberta beef.
I think this a really good thing we’re doing. I’m in full support of it. The local stores are being held accountable for the pricing, not only the stores but the airlines as well. It’s making sure we get somebody on this as a watchdog, making sure that the people, our constituents, who this is mostly affecting, get what’s coming to them in the pricing.
I thank my colleagues, and I hope everybody supports this.