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Conservatives are accusing the Liberals of 'misleading Canadians' with a school food program that leaves out more than 90 per cent of schoolchildren as the Liberals welcome a fourth province into the initiative. Yet, with the program already expected to feed an additional 184,000 students this year alone, Families, Children, and Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds says every student who doesn’t go to school hungry is progress when the Conservatives would have done nothing. On Nov.
The year-over-year change from 2021-22 was also the largest on record, with more than 110,000 families falling below the poverty line that year. “Trudeau’s photo-op promise will not feed kids; it will feed bureaucracies,” Ferreri said in her statement. “While Trudeau builds his food bureaucracy in Ottawa, he simultaneously raised the carbon tax—which he vows to quadruple—by 23 per cent on parents who already can’t afford to put food on the table.
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