Breakfast Club of Canada pushes for government follow-through on school food policy in July

About 1.8 million Canadian children in 2022 live in households that struggle to afford food, compared to 1.4 million children in 2021, according to Statistics Canada data.

Families Minister Jenna Sudds, right, said that 'too many children at school are trying to learn on empty stomachs,' in a newsletter released on Dec. 1 on her website, prior to when she assumed responsibility for her current portfolio in the July cabinet shuffle.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

August 28, 2023

Growing food insecurity among schoolchildren in Canada was a major advocacy issue in July, with the federal government being urged to follow through on an overdue promise to implement a national school food program.

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