It’s time to include a Canada-wide School Food Program in Budget 2023
Posted: February 22, 2023
Categories: Edible Education Network / Good Food Ideas for Kids / GoodFoodBites / School Food News / Schools
With Budget 2023 approaching, the Coalition for Healthy School Food is making one final push to #NourishKidsNow and make sure that a universal, healthy school food program for Canada gets funded.
If you also want to see a national school food program across the country, help us put school food in the budget by contacting your local MPs and spreading the word that we need to #NourishKidsNow!
Below are some resources to help you spread this message:
- Write to your MP asking them to speak to their regional caucus about the importance of an investment in healthy school food in Budget 2023 (template letter here). Please let us know if you send a letter so that we can track numbers and engagement!
- Write to the Minister of Finance and cc Debbie at schoolfood@foodsecurecanada.org by February 28, 2023 (template letter here). After you have sent your letter we will collate all of them and send them in an additional package to the Minister.
- Use the social media resources provided and ask the government to commit to a National School Food Program in #Budget2023 (you can also follow and retweet the Coalition here!)
For more context and information, visit the Coalition’s website here and read the Coalition’s recommendations to the Government of Canada.