Critics say Liberals’ Food Security Strategy tackles national risks, not Canadians’ hunger

'Food insecurity is an income issue,' says Daily Bread CEO Neil Hetherington, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre argues the Liberals are blaming international instability for a problem largely created by domestic economic policy.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre right, announced the new National Food Security Strategy alongside Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Heath MacDonald, right, and MPs James Maloney, left, and Sophie Chatel, MacDonald's parliamentary secretary, at the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto on June 11.

With parliamentarians home for the summer barbecue circuit, Liberal ministers have spent the past week and a half reheating the prime minister’s newly announced Food Security Strategy aimed at strengthening the domestic food supply chain to insulate it from international p...

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