Leona Aglukkaq: Waste not, want not.... "It wouldn't be uncommon to see food wasted from the Northern stores, you know, when food expires it gets thrown in the garbage.

Power & Politics host Evan Solomon honed in on Aglukkaq's comments, asking a number of pointed questions:

'We've got a hunger problem across the country. We have hundreds of thousands of Canadians – kids – who use food banks.

What struck me though is when she talked about people going to the dump to forage for food, she said that it's not 'uncommon' for expired food to be thrown out and there's a kind of 'waste not, want not' – that if you're looking for car parts and you see food, you may pick it up?

It will raise questions: is she normalizing a culture where people are so hungry in the North that they will pick up food out of the garbage and is that really what 'waste not, want not' is?"

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