People are having to pay more for baby formula in Canada and that’s putting pressure on families who can’t afford to shoulder those cost increases.
A prominent infant food insecurity expert says it’s a long-term problem that’s getting worse.
“If you’re a very low-resource family, where you’re relying often on food-charity responses, then those babies, I would say, are some of the most food-insecure Canadian citizens,” said Lesley Frank, a Canada research chair in food, health and social justice at Nova Scotia’s Acadia University. “Because they only eat that one thing.”
Consumer Price Index data from Statistics Canada shows that infant formula prices were up
