Correct. If we subsidize their food more the real question is why are we doing that so they can continue to live there. They could all move to Vancouver and have cheaper food.
Nunavut families to protest high food costs where whole chicken costs $65
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Correct. If we subsidize their food more the real question is why are we doing that so they can continue to live there. They could all move to Vancouver and have cheaper food.
Well bully for you. I tried growing veggies on the mid coast. Fruit, other than native species in season is out of the question.Didn't work. And our shipping costs are way less than in the Arctic.
Cloud berries in the summer.Pretty hard for anything to grow with permafrost and only a few inches of thawed soil though.
How many times do you want to relocate them?
But do you buy expensive fruit flown in from somewhere far away, and then complain about it? While enjoying your extra tax deductions to account for the extra costs?
They eat expensive food because there is nothing else,dont think I would want lo live on just caribou and fish.
I don't want to relocate them. I also don't want to pay their food bill.
If they choose to pay more for other stuff, more power to them. I don't think I should have to pay for that if they could eat caraboo and fish.
We did relocate them.They watch over the north,small price to pay,I bet the army could do it for about ten times the amount.Try living on just meat and fish,see how healthy it is.
Would you prefer to pay a scurvy treatment bill for 30,000 people? :lol:, not to mention rickets, pellagra and berry berry!
Good point, Petros.............on the ball again this morning I see. :smile:
I do by paying higher rent in living in an area with a larget population. Also, its not cheaper than the States for example. But I don't want or ask government subsidy of my rent or my food. But that sounds like a damn good idea if we are going to head down that road.
Uhuh. It's our over abundance of food produced in Canada by Canadians for Canadians.and for export. If it weren't for that we'd all be paying $12 for a mango from Oogaboogaland. Only urbanites should benefit?
Petros makes a valid point regarding food subsidy.
But the actual subsidies are considerably different in amount and applicability. While we all have access to food that is subsidized. We do not all have access to the same food subsidy program as those available exclusively to those living in the north.
Baker lake northern store.Check out the price on the televisions.
Expensive grocery store we have - YouTube
Expensive grocery store we have - YouTube
Nope, consuming the whole animal.
Anyone that has ever listened to an Inuit Elder talk about traditional foods, would be able to tell you that consuming raw seal meat and other animal organ meat is a source of balanced nutrition.
After all, the Inuit did manage to survive in one of the worlds most inhospitable regions, for thousands of years before contact.
Go figure.
Of course not. But what does a subsidized mango have to do with a reasonably priced healthy diet?
I have an idea lets all be supplied by govt with rationed portions for free. No obesity, no heart disease, no GI crap, reduced arthritis, etc etc etc.
A one a day donut.
They can name them in my honour too. Call them Petr-Os.
A one a day donut.
They can name them in my honour too. Call them Petr-Os.
If I go to my local grocery store in Toronto, pick a clump of bananas, some OJ, and a loaf of bread can you explain where and how that is subsidized? I know if I pick up milk, eggs, or chicken I am actually paying more due to a reverse subsidy -- I am supporting a controlled industry in Canada -- but I fail to see any govt subsidy on the items I mentioned. I am close to a distribution centre because I live in an urban centre. This keeps my costs down. But I pay more for rent and transportation by living there.
When I visit my parents in Saskatoon, I expect to pay a bit more for food since the food has to come from other places (aside from Bread or other stuff theorectically grown locally). When I go to the lake further away from the urban centre, I also pay more than in Saskatoon. This is the price of living away from an urban centre. But I could pay a whole bunch less for rent if I lived in small town SK so it would break even.
The NWT is just another extention of that model unless somebody can show me where the actual subsidy is. I don't see it.
Things should be comparable in any community that can land a 747 on their airstrip up there but they arent.Prices in Yellowknife are fairly good yet in Rankin inlet prices are outragous.They both can land 747s and planes are allways loaded to the max.
I think the northern store and others use their monopoly to keep the prices high.
I think the northern store and others use their monopoly to keep the prices high.