Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today in my Member’s statement I was speaking to the Food Mail Program in my riding of Nunakput and more or less all over the Beaufort-Delta and the

Sahtu in the small communities. Considering there’s northern nutrition and considering that only 62 percent of each dollar spent within the Food Mail Program actually results in reduced prices, the rest is being lost between Canada Post and they say the airlines, but I think it’s more the local stores not passing it along to the person who’s buying the groceries, the retailer.

Will this government work progressively with the Members of this Legislative Assembly and the Government of Canada to adopt changes to the Food Mail Program that will ensure that each dollar of the subsidy is visible and accountable to the northern consumer to actually assist residents in the small, remote communities to eat healthy and live healthy? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.