By a show of hands, how many of you ate breakfast today?
Did you know that one in 10 people around the world are undernourished and don't have proper access to food? That means that even though we've eaten today, 700 million people will go to bed hungry, and three million of those are our fellow Canadians.
In the year 2000, Canada signed onto the millennium development goals, with a vision of creating a better world for everyone. These goals were replaced by the UN sustainable development goals. We wanted to to see our nation spend 0.7% of its budget on development, including the decrease of global hunger. As of this year, we are falling short of that goal and are currently spending about 0.3%.
I'm here to ask you to consider increasing Canada's financial commitment to meeting those goals. This past Tuesday was World Food Day. We celebrated that we've cut world hunger rates in half in the past 25 years, but we still have a long way to go.
Let's not let another Canadian go bed to hungry.
Thank you.