Budget 2024 a missed opportunity to address food affordability

To ensure food affordability, investment is needed to guarantee adequate incomes, rein in corporate profits, and support (w)holistic approaches to food provisioning.

Although the budget included funding for the important National School Food Program, it did not centre measures to ensure food affordability, write Marissa Alexander and Wade Thorhaug.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARISSA ALEXANDER, WADE THORHAUG

May 6, 2024

When the finance minister tabled her budget on April 16, Canadians were hoping for measures that would address our crisis in food insecurity. In 2023, 8.7 million people—including more than one-in-four children—experienced food insecurity. These are the highest recorded ...

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