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The Problem with Food Banks
Monday, April 30th, 2012
April 25, 2012
Canada signed and ratified the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1967 — and other international agreements following — that guarantee the right to food. But it’s not entrenched in our constitution, our domestic law. The right to food is particularly problematic in the Canadian context, because social rights, like welfare for example, are provincial responsibilities. “It’s the old problem of Canadian federalism… It becomes messy in terms of whose government is really responsible for this.”
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