Outcome 1

POLICIES AND POLICY RELATED ACTIVITIES

1.1.2.1 Continue and expand the Broader Public Sector Investment Fund to promote Ontario food

1.1.2.2 Renew and increase funding to the Ontario Student Nutrition Program

1.1.2.3 Incentives for local and healthy food purchasing within the Ontario Student Nutrition Program and Ontario After School programs

1.1.2.4 Support the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care in providing healthy local food in hospitals

1.1.2.5 Continue to support PPM150 efforts to sell healthier foods in schools

1.1.3.1 Continue to support and expand the Northern Fruit and Vegetable Program

1.2.1.1 Enact legislation that targets the food supply in regards to development of healthier foods (e.g. lower in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids, free sugars, or sodium) through menu labeling and taxation

1.3.1.1 Continue to strengthen and implement the Poverty Reduction Strategy, including a focus on food access

1.3.1.2 Implement an affordable housing strategy

1.3.1.3 Review and reform social assistance programs to better enable part time and occasional work and income earning

1.4.1.1 Set minimum wage standards and ODSP/Social Assistance payouts at levels adequate to support healthy eating

1.5.2.1 Allocate funds on an ongoing basis for research on the multiple factors that influence the cost of food and that contribute to food insecurity

1.6.1.1 Fund the development and implementation of municipal and regional food councils to advise on food access and policy development

1.6.1.2 Support the replication of current municipal/regional food councils that are models for successful practices

1.6.2.1 Adopt policies to support and fund community based food access programs like fresh food markets, community gardens, fresh food box programs, community kitchens, etc.

1.6.2.2 Adopt policies to support and fund networks of community food access programs

1.6.3.1 Designate food retail and affordable food access as essential planning functions to be undertaken by municipal and regional planning bodies

1.6.3.2 Add specific policies to all municipal Official Plans that permit walk-able access to small and mid-scale food retail, urban agriculture and small temporary farmers markets in all residential areas

1.6.4.1 Act in accordance with First Nations Treaty Rights

1.6.4.2 Allocate adequate land for the exclusive use of hunting, fishing and gathering reserves

1.6.4.3 Set and enable, through subsidy, a standard, affordable price for nutritious staples sold in the North

1.6.4.4 Advocate for expansion and enhancement of the Federal Food Mail program to ensure affordable pricing of nutritious foods across all regions of Canada

1.6.4.5 Provide innovative options for food production in the North (e.g. funding greenhouses as in Whitehorse, Yukon)

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