Is Nutrition North Canada on Shifting Ground? /

If the program is to continue in its current form, it can and should be grounded in a more realistic and comprehensive policy and program approach to the price of food in the north. [...] In communities that receive the full Canada increased by 3.5% between March 2012 Nutrition North Canada subsidy, the annual cost of the and March 2014,⁶ the average price of the Revised Revised Northern Food Basket for a family of four in Northern Food Basket (RNFB) in NNC-eligible March 2013 was $21,372, or $411 per week – more than communities increased by only 1% during the. [...] The Auditor General’s position that we can only know if the subsidy is being passed on to consumers if retailers To get a sense of the complexity involved in this provide information on profit margins begs the question – calculation, let’s consider the example of all apples if the federal government had this information, as. [...] The price of perishable produce can be quite has collected a significant amount of data variable, as we have seen with the effects of the recent drought in California and the declining value of the on subsidized food, NNC has outgrown Canadian dollar. [...] D Parsing Profit Margins The Auditor General has expressed concern that a retailer could use the Nutrition North Canada subsidy “to reduce the landed cost of an item, but that reduction could be negated if the profit margin is subsequently increased.”17 The AG seems to imply that retailers must report transportation expenses that are equal to or higher than the Nutrition North subsidy, and that an