OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats want the government to fund a national school food program in the upcoming budget — and for Liberals to fulfil their
election promise to put one in place.
A year later, Ottawa opened up roundtable talks with teachers, parents, children and youth about a national school food policy. In Manitoba, the NDP government announced earlier this year it is expanding its own provincial school nutrition program. “The reason that universal school meal programs are so important for poverty reduction is that when every child has access to a program on a sliding scale, it normalizes a food program,” said Prato, who spoke alongside Singh.
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