Time for a global Canadian food policy

A proposed national food policy has a profound limitation: it stops at the border.
Canada grows 1.5 per cent of the world’s food—pretty significant for a country that has just 0.5 per cent of the world’s population, writes Sophia Murphy.
The government is soon to release a new food policy for Canada. With six departments actively engaged, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the helm, the national food policy has occasioned an ambitious and often contentious—but w...

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