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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Premier Dennis King is hoping P.E.I. parents and students will not have to choose between competing federal and provincial school lunch programs in the near future.
King said he had recently written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggesting the two levels of government work together to improve the existing P.E.I. school food lunch program, which provides low-cost meals to children on a pay-what-you-can basis. “We believe that a direct federal investment in our school food program is the most effective way to achieve our mutual goal of making sure children do not go hungry,” King wrote in the letter.
King said federal Health Minister Mark Holland has so far had little luck in convincing P.E.I. dentists to sign onto their program. King claimed only one dentist had signed up for the federal dental program.King called the roll-out of the federal dental program in P.E.I. “an unmitigated disaster.”
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