Continuing on with the belligerency theme: We received below flyer from Nutrition North Canada [NNC] this week.
As regular readers know I [and many others] have issues with the way NNC is carrying out its mandate. Or perhaps better to says, not carrying out its mandate.

We were lead to believe the main purpose in changing from the old system to NNC was to insure transparency, accountability and improve the delivery and affordability of fresh and frozen foods to remote communities.

Some of those things are not being delivered and time has run out.

How does a shopper know that they, the shopper is benefiting from this subsidy? The fact that any given item is in the store, and available to purchase, is not proof that the subsidy is benefiting the shopper.

On a personal note; I am of the opinion that fresh produce is not overly expensive on most items and most stores operating under the NNC program. Others have differing opinions on that, and so be it.

But on items like meats and other foods under the program I can not honestly say that we, the consumer, are benefiting at all.
We may be, but the transparency is just not there.

How can meats sold in a store that is not using the NNC subsidy be sold cheaper than some stores enrolled under the subsidy program? Dialog is badly needed to explain this.

There is no oversight on quility of items prior to leaving the distributions center, in this case happy valley Goose Bay.

There is no oversight on timely delivery of items once that arrive at the distribution center.
Many times orders placed on a Monday of one week will be delivered the following week, and then in dribs and drabs. Under the old program there was stipulation on delivery time and in most cases all items under the subsidy arrived on a designated day. Not so under the NNC.

In Labrador there is no way we can take advantage of making “personal orders” under NNC. This is a continuation from the old program; one I thought would be addressed under NNC.

Commercially produced country foods are the biggest joke of all under NNC. Seeing that there are scant federally regulated suppliers of country foods in all of Canada and zero in Labrador there is no way anyone can benefit from this.

Under the NNC program Health Canada is supposed to be involved with promotional and education programs on food security and healthy eating. There is no evidence in this region of Health Canada involvement.

On the right hand side of the flyer it states “we are listening and want to hear form Northerners”.
I have seen no evidence that anyone is listening to date.

Finely, on the reverse side of the flyer the same message is in Inuttut syllabics. Some one at NNC needs to inform themselves that Inuttut in Labrador is written in roman orthography form.