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UN released a new report Wednesday signifying that a number of Canadians are suffering from poverty, inequality and the inability to pay for daily food.
“What I’ve seen in Canada is a system that presents barriers for the poor to access nutritious diets and that tolerates increased inequalities between rich and poor, and aboriginal non-aboriginal peoples,” Olivier De Schutter, the UN right-to-food envoy, said.
Schutter said Canada has sufficient resources; however, these days one in 10 families with a child under 6 is incapable to meet their daily food requirements. He emphasized that these rates are unfavorable, and Canada must adopt a national right-to-food strategy.
“This is a country that is rich but that fails to adapt the levels of social assistance benefits and its minimum wage to the rising costs of basic necessities, including food and housing,” De Schutter said.
On the contrary, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney urges UN to stop wasting its resources into studying the stats of developed countries like Canada.
Kenny said: “It would be our hope that the contributions we make to the United Nations are used to help starving people in developing countries, not to give lectures to wealthy and developed countries like Canada. I think this is a discredit to the United Nations.”
However, a number of officials do not side with Kenney. For example, Diana Bronson, of Food Secure Canada, says Kenney is simply overlooking the actual problem.
“The problem of hunger in Canada is perhaps not on our front page news but there are 2 million people in this country who are food insecure and we have almost a million people who use food banks on a monthly basis. So we are indeed in a crisis and the terrible thing is we have no policy in place to deal with it,” Bronson said.
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