Food insecurity remains a large and persistent problem in Canada. In 2023, 22.9% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household: that is 8.7 million Canadians, including 2.1 million children. Further, the number of people living in food-insecure households between 2019 and 2023 increased by 42.5%.
Without a doubt this is a serious public health problem as it is associated with adverse health outcomes which should absolutely merit significant action from provincial and federal governments. If we fail to reverse this trend now, we will continue to see disastrous consequences.
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