‘The model doesn’t make any sense’: Senators, Inuit orgs call for Nutrition North transformation

Parliamentary secretary Yvonne Jones says the government has brought ‘continuous’ improvements to Nutrition North, mostly in 2018, including making 'significant changes around transparency.'

Labrador Liberal MP Yvonne Jones, pictured at a last year's Liberal convention in Halifax, says the government has brought 'continuous' improvements to Nutrition North.The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

May 29, 2019

A federal program that subsidizes the cost of sending perishable food to remote communities has a “model that doesn’t make any sense” for northerners, according to Senators who live in th...

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