Feed the children: Canada needs to sign on to Global School Meals Coalition

It’s both a strategic mistake and a failure of leadership that the federal government hasn’t yet advanced a school food program for young Canadians and signed on to an important and visionary world movement for school food.

There appears to be a troubling pattern where our government makes a global commitment to school food for children in other countries but is hypocritically silent domestically, write Amberley T. Ruetz and Debbie Field. Pexels photograph by Katerina Holmes

Opinion

BY AMBERLEY T. RUETZ AND DEBBIE FIELD

September 1, 2021

Internationally, school food programs are one of the most successful drivers of improved health, education, and economic growth, and yet Canada is the only G7 country, and one of the only countries in the highly industrialized Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) without a n...

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