Doesn’t matter where you live the price to put food on the table is a concern for many Canadians today the liberal government served up a plan for a billion dooll national food program for kids in schools a long-standing promise it’s being pitched as part of the upcoming budget ctv’s Colton pril
Reports for some students free meals at school may be the only one they eat all day it’s a problem that’s getting worse there’s hundreds of schools that have submitted request that we can’t meet as we speak data from statistics Canada shows that nearly 1.8 million children live in food insecure households but
Only about a third of those children actually participate in school breakfast programs according to a 2019 study that’s why the federal government is stepping in delivering on a yearslong promise for a national school food program we’ve recognized that every Province and territory has its ways of delivering f food programs uh to kids
But we also know the need is far greater than anyone is able to meet right now the Liberals say April’s budget will include a billion dollars over 5 years to provide access to school food programs to an additional 400,000 students starting next September one of the few confirmed details of the program
Will also require significant cooperation with the provinces where School food programs differ immensely let’s stop with the the peac meal approach and and have real Federal partnership so that every kid can get a meal there’s lingering political push back conservatives twice voted against legislation to create a framework for
The program and today Pierre PV wouldn’t say if he supported the idea I find it ironic that he’s promising a federal food bureaucracy in Ottawa the same day as he raises taxes on food well Ottawa may be trying to change the channel on what could be a damaging day
Politically Advocates say this is a crucial step forward for Canadian children one long overdue
Ottawa announced plans for a national school food program, with plans to have it running by next year. Colton Praill reports.
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Says the guy that charges taxpayers 12k a month to feed his family. What a fraud he is…Jughead has to ho as well.
Disgusting over reach of the government. It is the parents responsibility to feed their kids. You think you are helping by giving crumbs to these kids with one hand will the other is taking large amounts of cash from their parents with the other!
9 years of the worst government we've ever had and now Canadians are so increasingly impoverished that they have to print another billion $ to feed school kids.
The government is the problem, not the solution. Until Canadians understand this, things are only going to get worse.
I just want him to stop spending our freaking money!!!
Nope, there should be no school lunch programs at all. If the parent or parents can't even feed their own children after working or getting their social benefits, then their children should be taken away from them.
Excellent initiative.
No doubt a few hundred Liberal party friends will be hired to administer the program.
A lot of sticky Liberal fingers in that new Billion dollar pie.
U will eat zee bugs!! ?
stop disempowering parents by taking tneir responsibilities away from them if they want other to raise their children this is the way to start, feeding them. day cares and soon boarding schools for all.
I bet they will be getting pbj sandwich or pizza
I already raised my kids they are grown and out of the house now I don’t want to raise your kids! Get your own money to raise your own kids!
The weak are meat and the strong sure do eat. is it time to eat the rich yet?
What a fkr. He taxes families into poverty then tosses a few slices of bread.
More programs are created so liberal bureaucracy can skim from Canadian taxpayers.
Look at the virtue signalling by Trudeau…
Just another step closer to Chairman Mao’s vision for Canada. Well done comrade Justin, just like your father.
More debt financed social programs to add to the national debt and drive up inflation.
Trudeau has to stop spending.
Force ppl into poverty then give a cheap handout
Cant wait for pp to explain why federal goverment paid lunches bad for childre.
Cost of living? Cost of survival. FJT and Versace Singh
Hiding behind kids in a primary school .
Pathetic.
he is such a slime ball
the way i see taxes is politicians juggling money around and some of it just happens to land in their pockets.
This will no doubt only apply to the poorest of the poor families. Nothing against them, mind you. Whereas lower income to middle income families are all struggling, and most will get zero help.
Yeah.. Gotta get them to accept insects as food while they are young.
WHAT A JOKE TRUDEAU IS NOT WORTH THE COST AND HES A CLOWN
Way to go!
useless career politician appears well fed.
He makes me sick. He made Canada a sick country.
Axe the tax, so we feed our own kids
DO NOT LET THAT P O S TRUDIDLER NEAR YOUR KIDS
Lol
Quit taxing the parents so much. They would be able to feed their kids!! Trudeau does not know how to think sensibly.
Way to go Trudeau, you’re a real hero, trying to fix a problem you created ?
M r troudo stop using the students for your nonsense you really care for the kids loer the palateshens loer ther salaries and the strikes at oll schools they don't pay tuition for nothing too stay home lower palateshens and there salaries and help the schools you not working more than there parents that wat the kids want not your bloody crams that is redekelas stop the strike and don't make sick thenken for their future
Most school has this program easy axe the tax so they can eat Home cook meal at home.