Food Policy
This department was charged with developing A Food Policy for Canada.
What is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada?
According to the new Canada's Food Guide, 50% of ones plate should comprise these kinds of foods.
This is the name of Canada's first Poverty Reduction Strategy.
What is Opportunity for All?
Nutrition North was created under this former Canadian Prime Minister.
Who is Stephen Harper?
The federal government will strive to reduce its own ____.
What is food waste?
Under the Child Health Protection Act, marketing of unhealthy foods will be restricted for children this age and under.
What is 12?
The federal government announced it had met its target to reduce poverty by this amount.
What is 20 percent?
Nutrition North Canada replaced this program.
What is the Food Mail program?
The federal government will work with provinces and territories to create this kind of program for Canadian children.
What is a National School Food Program?
These two pillars of the Healthy Eating Strategy have not yet been completed.
What are marketing to kids and front-of-package labelling?
According to the Canadian Income Survey, this federal program has pulled 278,000 children out of poverty.
What is the Canada Child Benefit?
Nutrition North provides food subsidies in all three territories and this number of provinces.
What is seven?
This number of Canadians participated in the consultation process for A Food Policy for Canada.
What is 45,000?
Health Canada proposed adding front-of-package labels to products containing high levels of these three nutrients.
What are sodium, sugars, and saturated fat?
This low income measure is now Canada's Official Poverty Line.
What is the Market Basket Measure?
Name two of the four criteria for Nutrition North eligibility.
What are:
-lacking year-round surface transportation
-meeting the provincial/territorial definition of a northern community
-having an airport, post office, or grocery store
-having a year-round population?
When the creation of the food policy was announced, this Member of Parliament was the Minister of Agriculture.
Who is Lawrence MacAulay?
Former Senator Nancy Greene Raine, who introduced the Child Health Protection Act, is also known for having participated in this elite event.
What are the Olympics?
What are housing and child care?
This former Auditor General criticized Nutrition North, finding there was no proof subsidies were being passed on from retailers to consumers.
Who is Michael Ferguson?