Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with students who participate in a program that provides food to students in need at Northumberland High School in Alma, N.S. on Thursday, June 20, 2024.
The government hopes to see kids eating meals under a universal, national school food program before the end of the next school year, but it will take time for organizations to scale up their operations, the families minister said Thursday. The government hopes to see kids eating meals under a universal, national school food program before the end of the next school year, but it will take time for organizations to scale up their operations, the families minister said Thursday.
"We will negotiate these agreements, incorporating our vision and our principles into these agreements, and then it will be incumbent on the provinces to move forward," she said.The school food program will largely rely on existing organizations that already feed kids. It's expected to provide food to an additional 400,000 children.
That means lunch, breakfast or snack programs should be available to all the children in a school, said Sudds.Families, Children and Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds arrives for a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.
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