$26 For Orange Juice? The Outrageous Food Prices Devastating Native Communities 

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They need to start community owned co-op stores. With those prices it’s a clear winner!

Its expensive back at home in Hawaii too. Not to the extremes, but it is expensive to live there. I was born n raised in hawaii, but finally moved away because things are getting too much

I have friends who are AK natives and in the villages anything that is brought in by plane(interior), by barge(Yukon river/Kusko river villages) or by ship(coastal villages), or flown in by plane anywhere in the state is super expensive. Not just food. Pretty much everything. Lumber and building materials are as much as 4times the cost. Bulky items like toilet paper and paper towels are expensive too bc they take up a lot room in the plane or vessel. Heavy items such as liquid (soda,water,juice and milk) are crazy expensive too, milk being the most expensive. Liquid laundry soap is expensive too bc it is so dense and heavy. Generally speaking, the further north you go the more expensive everything is. Obviously fresh food is by far the most expensive. It isn't uncommon to see a 50$watermelon, apples that are 2$+ each, bread at 5$+ a loaf, milk at 15$+, even things like chips are expensive. Do you like Doritos? Well they're 10-12$ a bag. I am sure Northern Canada is much the same as this. There are ways to make it though. My friends have a huge garden and grow and sell their excess tomatoes, potatoes,lettuce, broccoli ect ect. They can use that money to purchase things like toilet paper, laundry soap, and whatever else they need. They love that kind of lifestyle. I have visited many times and I like it too. Someday after my parents have passed away I'll be moving up there somewhere. My native friends eat healthier than anyone I know. They kill their own animals, grown their own produce(and can it for the winter), they drink clean fresh water with no chemical treatments. They don't eat fast food, they don't consume food with additives or preservatives.

This is insane !

People in Canada must stand up for the indigenous. Shame on Canada

This video really doesn't explain the complexity of the issue. A huge portion of those prices is simply the cost of shipping to remote communities. Note that those are the prices after the Canadian government subsidizes the cost to ship. There are many factors beyond that as well, like monopolies & lack of local food production. While the situation is not right, there is no easy fix.

I thought it was bad in a US food dessert where cheap unhealthy crap that cost 2$ in a nice neighborhood cost 5$ in a poor neighborhood.

Sounds like the natives need to start a transportation company.

Yes, because shipping fresh fruit (or anything) to remote arctic locations is cheap and efficient.... the prices here reflect the costs of transporting/storing the goods. It's not racism, it's capitalism.

YOWZA! I've seen these crazy prices up in Alaska and they hit everybody of all ethnicities who shop at the stores there. I guess it's the high cost of transporting the goods to remote areas. Sky high energy costs and hyper-inflation is certainly not going to help...

That is Disgusting, I live in England and our prices are 1/5 of those prices ON THE SAME PRODUCTS AS WELL, And even less from a wholesaler, We sell to the public but our profit margins are much much less, Those prices for Native people, That is Daylight robbery, And whoever made those prices should be FIRED and FINED !!! absolute cruelty.

Capitalism kills! And unchecked capitalism kills quickly!

That is truly insane those prices!

Thats insane!!

This was from a 2023 Nunavut article. Among the government’s revenue sources are $165 million in taxes, $21 million to be collected through housing rent payments, and $78 million from other various sources. Also included is $1.97 billion through its largest federal transfer receipt, the Territorial Financing Formula - an annual unconditional transfer from the federal government to the three territories. Brother.

Sounds like your average grocery shopping in southern wyoming.

Water costs $7!!!!!!

Talk about a half story. Why are the prices so high? Because there is no access, everything has to go there on a Boat, or Plane or Winter Road, there are no roads to most of these little villages, just swamp and barrens, these are not cities, these are small collections of people spread across the Arctic. City prices are still atrocious but these villages are so for out there and the people don't want to relocate for whatever reason beit tradition, or financial. So what do you do? Organize multi million dollar operations to supply a village of 25 people? Now do this for the 100s of villages spread across the Arctic, it makes no sense. These people should not be living there, they were poked up there to secure the land from the Russians, that time is over. Get them out of there and stop trying to fix a problem that should not exist. For those that want to live on their ancestral land, fine stay, but you live the way your ancestors lived, on hunting and gathering, you want to live in the woods, get used to camping. You want fresh milk and veggies, come join society. You can't have your cake and eat it to, a hard choice must be made and it should not be on the Canadian taxpayer to foot the bill for communities refusing to see reality, they live in an area that farming in not possible and supply roads will never be made so this problem will never be solved, just a few more people get stupid rich off the suffering of others.

here is some simple advice.....get off the reservation like the majority of native americans...........and join society where the prices are lower

I know that this may seem a bit late, but a lady spoke (via video link) in The House Of Commons during Question Period in the last few days and brought this up. I'm trying to find her again and what she said but I am resonating with the fact that a liter of orange juice is $12 and a can of chicken soup is $10. The conservatives are pushing against Trudeau to NOT raise the carbon tax and my biggest concern about hearing what it's like already in Nunavut is how that is going to affect all of the Indigenous populations if it does happen.

I'm no longer waiting for the stimulus check because I earn $22,000 every 14-16 day's🚀

I worked up north. You could buy pop for 50 cents, but milk was16$ for a jug.. what a joke! And the band leaders are mainly greasy, too

The Government of Canada forced these people as far north and away from the border for decades. The cost of food, proper housing, clean water, and access to health and education has all been sub par. The government could be subsidising the cost of transport of these goods, if they cared. This, along with the graves at residential schools has NEVER BEEN A SECRET, it's just only a few people are listening, or even care that it's happening. We have to pressure our LOCAL canadian gov. representatives to take care of ALL canadians, and stop the warfare towards our indigenous folks. Ty for covering this.

that's pretty much the same prices we pay in Asia (in our currency not CAD) but I make it work with some substitutions. What i am not seeing is the price of vegetables and whole chicken that you can butcher yourself at home? That's what I mostly buy

Waste of internet for this vid. Ill sum it up...i live in the middle of nowhere and i want people to ship stuff to me for free from other countries...wahhh

At that point it won't even feel bad to steal.

we also need to stop drinking sugary process water...

Listen, nobody is forcing you to live in an expensive community. There are obviously much cheaper places to live. I could choose to live on a private island where all my food, where all my everything was flown in, but I don't. Because it would be too expensive.

Their only real choice is to join us and integrate. Living out there is always going to be a problem.

I used to shop at a store targeting Native American people in covelo California and it was very expensive. Most people would only buy a few items at a time and I would go in and stock up and end up paying 500 for a few groceries. What was really disgusting is they had an entire aisle dedicated to koolaid with a sign on the top of the aisle and everything, they soon changed it when a lot of white people started shopping there. Never seen that before. But ya a box of cereal was like 10 bucks. Alcohol and sugar was still cheap though. I only saw young people buy bottles of hard alcohol and sugar items.

all of this has to be flown in which is hugely expensive you choose to live in remote areas you pay the price move to south and get a job and get off welfare

id be catching my own food because this is extortion

Those Prices Will Be Arriving In America If The People Don't Stop It.

What a crime against humanity. Their entire livelihood is ruined by corporate greed!

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Swifter is not an essential item, either is most of the junk food displayed on this video. Learn to cook at home using staples like flour, pasta rice and beans.

What did they do before it was shipped in to them

This breaks my heart to see the mistreatment of humans. Please, someone with the means help!

Too much focus on profits and capitalist gains rather than helping the first nations people. Those prices are outrageous. Canada has really failed its native population in so many ways.

What about a community co op where the subsidisation is definitely passed on to the community members? Because what I got from this is that the private companies have no oversight regarding where or even if they pass those subsidies on to the people. And I don’t think that private companies should be trusted to do so on an honour system. They cannot be trusted. But a co op that is owned and controlled by the community itself is far less likely to try to profit off the back of their own selves. The co op would have to be owned by the community though, not just a couple of people within the community. And every adult who lives permanently within the community would need to have some voting rights. It’s also more likely to pay community workers fair wages. The issue is getting one started. They already have income issues, so getting together the money to start a grocery co op would be incredibly difficult. Maybe a fundraising drive? And it would help if they could bolster what is available by growing/raising/hunting whatever they can themselves. Again, as a community, or the co op could pay the community members for that meat or fresh produce (which would likely require an indoor heated greenhouse for year round produce which I think should also be a community endeavour). But a single person who can hunt could then sell that on to the co op. It would not only save the community money, it would provide more jobs and they’d have greater food security. They wouldn’t be paying for the profits of a private company. I think there needs to be a balance of new technologies and older, traditional solutions to the food problem.

So why doesn't anyone just swoop in and charge lower prices? Also, the government shouldn't be putting money towards subsidizing the store. If they need to hand out money to anyone, it should be the people who need to eat. By giving them the money it gives them the power of choice, to choose what businesses are deserving of their patronage. The government should be putting money into more efficient delivery systems to that part of the country like a railroad line (or even multiple railroad lines) we need this in the north anyway, so that materials, people, goods, heavy machinery and military equipment can be moved more easily to develop the north and solidify its connection with the rest of the country (and the rest of the country with it) because as the north gets warmer, it is going to take more than placing a bottle of Canadian Club on top of a hill to enforce our boarders (yes this really happened).

It means $ has devalued. Gold/silver end inflation.

This is the consequences of government pushing native’s out as far and as much as they can, geographically. Which does directly contribute, in many ways, to driving them out as a people. It’s not a secret; it’s deliberate & always has been.

Move

It’s in Canadian dollars, everyone. So it’s okay.

Best to get back to caribou + bison

They should really get into hydroponics on a massive scale or aquaponics if they want some free fish on top of all the free produce

Um wat

Here is an idea, just move. If you stay somewhere and complain about it? That is not fixing your problem.

4.00 dollars for 10 pack of tortillas. This is out of control plan and simple.

and still, some urban people are angry that people in the north keep hunting seals and walruses.

Maybe it's time to move?

Gd that's not okay ,welp time to drive 2 hours for some canned food and chips

Clearly the Canadian government needs to address the issue of food insecurity (among other things) in the Canadian tribes.

Most of these so called 'food' is not even food for humans. Stop buying and eat that shit. Eat proper human food like meat, eggs, fish etc.

Time to take out the cannons for some “firework shows”

I get your struggle, but why should anyone subsidize stuff for you? If they do, there needs to be proper oversight..... And 3. Weren't your ancestors live with no supermarkets for hundreds or thousands of years?

Or...and im just throwing ideas but maybe dont live 700miles from the cities lol...shipping costs money, maybe actually build stuff in canada or possibly farm

Hunt?

😳wow

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If you want to live remotely to keep your ancestral home, but still want modern-day commodities, expect it to be expensive. It's not racism, it's economics. It's a great deal less work to deliver something 2 blocks away than it is to deliver that same thing to the farm outside of town. That means it costs a lot more to deliver to Farmer Bill's house than it does to deliver to Billy-up-the-street. So of course indigenous communities are struck harder: they live separated from the country in which they reside. That's their right and responsibility. It's a company's responsibility to not lose money on shipping to remote locations.

Which company did that

No one in Canada goes bankrupt from medical bills, so there’s that at least.

Yeah okay, this is one of those places you just need to nationalize shit. Instead of throwing money at the stores and hoping for the best, the government should just set up its own northern shipping that can service underserved areas - not free, but able to operate at a loss in order to set reasonable costs. It would create jobs, would more effectively subsidize movement of food and essential goods to the north, but would also almost certainly have the side effect of increased economic growth in those areas (in addition to, you know, massive improvements in the standard of living, reduction in mental and physical health problems, etc). Would it "pay for itself"? Not directly, no. But indirectly, I bet it would pay off in spades.

The natives have survived by themselves for thousands of years. Now they beg for food.

Say what you want about Russia at least they subsidize the shipping of food & goods to the Russian Far East so it's people (including the indigenous) can eat. 🤷🏿‍♂️

By the time they help, the indigenousness ppl would have starved

Fight against the power

I just go to the Dollar Tree I'm not wasting my money this video scare me🤯

We as a people, all over the world need to become self sufficient and stop buying from companies. We need to grow foods and raise livestock's between communities and trade and barder. Stop giving your hard earned money to those who have million's.

choose to live at the end of the world, pay end of the world prices...