Labrador food prices: Nunavut MP says complain to Northern Affairs [Video]

A Nunavut MP is urging people in northern Labrador to complain directly to the federal government about food prices that have been described as inhumane.

NDP member Lori Idlout says a federal subsidy program to reduce food prices in remote Indigenous communities is not meeting its goal, and she says people should complain about it to Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal.

Nain, N.L., recorded a 62 per cent increase in the cost of healthy food between 2011, when the Nutrition North subsidy program was introduced, and 2021 — the highest increase reported among communities that qualify for the subsidies.

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Pictures on social media show the local Northern Store charging $7.97 for cabbage and $21.49 for a 1.42-litre bottle of Crisco cooking oil — prices Nain resident Rosie Harris has described as “inhumane.”

Lynn Blackwood, …