Question Period Note: Nutrition North Canada

• Nutrition North Canada helps make perishable and nutritious foods more affordable and accessible to residents of eligible isolated northern communities that lack year-round road, rail or marine access.

• Budget 2021 proposes an investment of $163.4 million over three years, beginning in 2021-2022, to expand Nutrition North Canada in collaboration with Indigenous partners to better address food insecurity in the North.

• Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020 the government injected $25 million in Nutrition North Canada to increase subsidy rates and expand the list of eligible items to include personal hygiene and cleaning products.

• Eligible communities are benefiting from the program’s Harvesters Support Grant, with $8 million dollars a year to support hunting, harvesting and food sharing activities to increase access to traditional foods.

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