Making good on food promises

The PM has asked the agriculture minister to develop a national food policy. Northerners’ needs must be considered.

In 2012, the then-United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, pictured in 2011, highlighted ‘deep and severe’ food insecurity Canada’s indigenous peoples face. Ryan Brown photograph courtesy of the UN

Opinion

BY SOPHIA MURPHY

December 14, 2016

In 2012, the then-United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, visited Canada at the government’s request. It was the first such mission to an industrialized country. Government ministers at the time were vocal in their disapproval that a UN office focused on foo...

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