Mr. Speaker, what I’m receiving as some of the complaints from the constituents are that the contract between the Northwest Company and the Nutrition North Program is that the retail store is not so concerned about the diet that’s supposed to be provided under the program for the residents; it’s more concerned with the bottom line profit. So the type of monitoring that this government is responsible for, how is it that this government is educating people on nutrition and northern healthy foods when we can’t even get them in our communities? If we do get them, they’re either spoiled rotten or they cost too damn much for people to buy. How is it that this government is telling the Northwest Company you need to have nutritional food here and some of those products are not getting in there? And if they are, they go bad after one day on the shelf.
Norman Yakeleya on Question 145-16(6): Funding For Food Mail Program
In the Legislative Assembly on August 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 145-16(6): Funding For Food Mail Program
Oral Questions
August 17th, 2011
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