Municipal Elections 2010
Posted: July 22, 2010
Categories: Food in the News / Municipal Elections 2010
Sustain Ontario is making healthy, local, sustainable food a municipal election priority. Across Ontario, our members have committed to speaking with candidates to ensure that farm and food issues are part of every elections platform.
We have developed a Municipal Elections Toolkit that outlines priority farm and food issues, and provides some helpful hints for organizing events and meetings with elections candidates.
We hope you will adapt these ideas to your regional context and put healthy, local, sustainable food on the municipal elections plate. For example, The Food Security Research Network (FSRN) in Thunder Bay will work with students from Lakehead University to customize the toolkit to reflect northern food and health issues.
The students will organize an ALL municipal candidates round table at World Food Day being celebrated on October 14. They will then prepare an analysis and summary of the views and visions from the municipal candidates. In Toronto, three key food priorities are being developed and an all candidates meeting is being organized for September.