Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I bring this motion to the floor and I thank the honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre for seconding it. I would ask that this motion be supported by all Members in this House here to look at the Nutritious North Program that was introduced in 2010.

Mr. Speaker, the old Food Mail Program worked well and we had regular users in our communities and retailers using it with the help from Canada Post at that time. The department did a review and now they’ve opted into a new Nutritious North Program. Basically it was taking the subsidies out of the hands of the people in the communities and putting them back into the hands of the retailers.

I ask that this Legislative Assembly supports this motion, through requesting strong recommendations to the Auditor General of Canada to undertake a comprehensive audit. We’ve heard the Nunavut Government has made this motion and passed it with unanimous consent, and also the Yukon Legislative Assembly.

Mr. Speaker, those are my words for this motion.