Which culture benefits from Nutrition North program?

The Nutrition North food program is great if you come from well fed and “a variety-of-food-around” family.

It is aimed at what is considered a healthy food lifestyle, according to the non-Inuit culture. I am thinking it is the southern people deciding for us what is healthy or not. So, who is the program for, Inuit or healthy eaters from the south?

The food mail program was aimed towards people with credit cards. Who are the majority of people in Nunavut with credit card?

This time around, who is going to benefit from the Nutrition North program? Northmart, with its long history of making money?

For the benefit of Nunavummiut, why aren’t their programs aimed at the hearts of Nunavummiut?

For example: increases in social assistance, elder discounts, single-parent discounts or even hunters and a clothing materials support program?

Isn’t that the whole idea of this type of program? Are we going to get a discount if we buy caribou meat at the store? Caribou meat is nutritional food.

I could see the point of the healthier food idea, with the increase in obesity and so on, but the reality is, if my daughter wants Froot Loops for breakfast, I am feeding her Froot Loops.

For me, nutritional food is something like fresh char. What about sodium-reduced products like mixed nuts, are they considered nutritional food?

We all need toilet paper. Will it be cheaper than $28 for 28 rolls? This is a necessity item. It’s not unhealthy item.

This is a fine example of southerners making a program for the North.

Leesee Papatsie
Iqaluit
Email your letters to editor@nunatsiaq.com.

Nunatsiaq News welcomes letters to the editor. But we are under no obligation to publish any given letter at any given time.

In our print edition, we usually print letters on a first-come, first-served, space-available basis. In our online edition, we usually print letters as soon as we are able to prepare them for publication.

We edit all letters for length, grammar, punctuation, spelling, taste and libel. You may withhold your name by request, but we must know who you are before we publish your letter.