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“While school meal programs exist in some form in all provinces and territories and in many Indigenous communities, we know that existing programming only serves roughly 21 per cent of all school-aged children,” said Mila Roy, a spokesperson for ESDC. School food programming falls under provincial and territorial jurisdiction, except for First Nations children on reserve.has been advocating for years for Canada to have a national school food program which is universal, cost-shared and flexible.Members of the coalition have been consulted by the federal government on the pan-Canadian school food policy.
Corporate foods?
I expect to see crickets as a 'sustainable protein source'.
Canada doesn’t tell me what my children eat !!! Canada is not responsible for my child and this over reach of govt forcing there way into our children lives ! Protect our children and stop govt interference and trying divide children from there families.
Great news! Why not bother spending money on packaging a lunch or making breakfast our kids Sleep in. Send 'em out the door & use the savings for smokes & door dash
Will it include puberty blockers to young children?
Milk cartons, cheese sticks and pieces of whole wheat bread. Followed by 25 years of complaining not following diverse cultural diversity standards. So obvious.
Hot dog day with donuts and chocolate milk finished with ice cream
I don’t even know of a school around me that even serves lunches
Good to hear this!! IStandWithTrudeau 🇨🇦🇨🇦