Canada’s first-ever Food Policy announced

Federal programs to boost the profile of domestic and locally grown foods at home while reducing food waste, food insecurity and deceptive food marketing

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… June 17 Montreal - following up on the allocation of $134.4 million over five years as pledged in the federal budget in March starting with the 2019-20 budget year. 

 

…Monday’s announcement offered up more specifics for one of the programs pledged in the budget: $50 million for a Local Food Infrastructure Fund, meant “to support a wide range of community-led projects that aim to improve access to safe, healthy and culturally diverse food.” 

 

Eligible organizations are to be invited to submit applications in that fund’s first intake period, starting Aug. 15 this year, to seek non-repayable grants of up to $25,000. 

Among four other five-year funding blocks set out in the March budget, the Food Policy also calls for $15 million for a Northern Isolated Community Initiatives Fund, backing “community-led” projects such as greenhouses, community freezers and skills training to “strengthen Indigenous food systems, and combat significant challenges in accessing healthy food in Canada’s North.” 

 

Another $25 million will go to a Buy Canadian promotional campaign, promoting Canadian agricultural products by way of a new “Canada Brand” and supporting online and in-store “Buy Canadian” marketing campaigns to “increase consumer pride and confidence in Canadian food.” 

 

Also, $26.3 million will go toward setting up a “challenge” to fund the “most innovative food waste reduction proposals in food processing, grocery retail and food service” and to back the federal government in projects to cut its own food waste. 

 

Funding of $24.4 million will go to programs tackling “food fraud” such as the mislabeling and misrepresentation of food products. That funding, the government said, will help “protect consumers from deception and companies from unfair competition”… 

 

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