Nutrition North consultation sparks dizzying kaleidoscope of demands – NunatsiaqOnline
May 03, 2017
Ottawa gets lots of conflicting advice on northern food subsidy program
The federal government is ready to report what people don’t like about its $80-million-a-year Nutrition North Canada program, but it’s not yet ready to say how they’ll change it.
After reading 19 written submissions, interviewing 61 business people, activists and regional leaders, and visiting 21 communities, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada officials compiled everything they heard into one big report posted online April 28.
The report makes no recommendations on how to improve Nutrition North Canada.
But it does contain a dizzying kaleidoscope of demands, complaints and suggestions, many of which flow from a cross-Canada community tour that ran from May 2016 to January 2017.
