This paper is a critique of the report released on 25 November 2014 by the Auditor General of Canada (AG), Michael Ferguson, on Nutrition North Canada (NNC), a subsidy program designed to lower the cost of “perishable nutritious food” in northern communities. We argue that the situation is far more complicated than the AG’s report allows and suggest that looking at the challenges faced by the provincial Norths will show the real deficits of NNC.

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• Burnett, K., Skinner, K., LeBlanc, J., (2025), "From Food Mail to Nutrition North Canada: Reconsidering federal food subsidy programs for northern Ontario", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.62)

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1. food subsidy programs
2. Northern Canada
3. Nutrition North Canada
4. remote

Original publication: Burnett, Kristin; Skinner, Kelly; LeBlanc, Joseph. "From Food Mail to Nutrition North Canada: Reconsidering federal food subsidy programs for northern Ontario." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 1, 2015, pp. 141-156. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.62. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.