As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to raise concerns about food insecurity among students and their families, advocates are calling on the federal government to commit to a national school meal program.
“In a way, Canada has an opportunity to design the best school food program in the world without a kind of top-down cookie-cutter model,” school food worker Debbie Field told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
To date, Canada is the only G7 country without a national school meal program. In 2017, UNICEF ranked Canada 37th out of 41 wealthy countries for kids’ access to nutritious food.
But Field, co-ordinator of the Montreal-based
