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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

CPC: Canada Post Corporation

Food insecurity: The inability to acquire or consume an adequate quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways or the uncertainty that one will be able to do so.

Food Mail program: A Government of Canada sponsored program that helps supplement a portion of the expenses incurred by shipping nutritious perishable food and other items to isolated northern communities that do not have year-round surface transportation.

INAC: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (federal government Department of).

Isolated northern communities: For purposes of eligibility under the Nutrition North Canada program, this includes communities that are not accessible year-round by road, rail or marine service (i.e. the same definition applied for eligibility under the Food Mail program), with the added condition that these communities, because of their remoteness from supply centres, availed themselves of the Food Mail program and ordered at least 100 kg of food mail shipments in 2009-2010.[1]

NNC: Nutrition North Canada.

Nunavik: A region in Quebec north of the 55th parallel covering 660,000 square kilometres of land, established through the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, signed in 1975. More recently, the Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement has given Nunavimmiut (Inuit of Nunavik) ownership of many if the islands off the coast of Nunavik. Its total population is roughly 11,000 permanent residents, nearly 90% of which are Inuit.[2]



 



[1]              Source: INAC, communication on January 11 2011. INAC further explained that the decision to limit the definition of “isolated northern communities” eligible under the NNC program was taken to reflect the fact that not all “communities that are not accessible year-round by road, rail or marine service” are isolated to the same degree, as some communities did not require a subsidy under the Food Mail program. As well, to ensure that NNC resources were focused on the most northerly and remote communities, the definition of “isolated northern community” was qualified using 2009-2010 shipment data.

[2]              Source: Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2006 Census: Analysis Series 2006 Census, Analysis Series; and Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, The Nunavik Region.