rising prices
In stores in Nunavut’s capital Iqaluit recently, a bag of cherries sold for C$21 , and a six-pack of bottled water cost C$19 – both about double the cost in southern Canada. A 12-pack of soft drink cans sold for C$27, triple the price in the south. The Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre in Iqaluit, a soup kitchen that offers free meals to those in need, says by June this year it had served 20,000 meals – the number served up in all of 2021.
The region has long struggled with food sufficiency. According to a 2020 Statistics Canada study, 57% of households in Nunavut dealt with food insecurity in 2017-2018, the highest level among provinces and territories in the country. Food insecurity is defined as a household lacking money to buy the variety or quantity of food it needs.
The Canadian government has promised C$40 million to build Nunavut’s first deepwater port, but that is a few years away.
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