UN envoy blasts Canada for ‘self-righteous’ attitude over hunger, poverty
Posted: May 16, 2012
Categories: News from Sustain Ontario
Canada needs to drop its “self-righteous” attitude about how great a country it is and start dealing with its widespread problem of food insecurity, the United Nations right-to-food envoy says.
In a hard-hitting interview this week with Postmedia News, Olivier De Schutter also blasted Canada for its “appallingly poor” record of taking recommendations from UN human-rights bodies seriously.
De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, has been on an 11-day mission to Canada, his first to a developed country.
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