Earlier I was asked what the correlation was between unemployment and food bank usage. Roughly, you can say that a 1% increase in unemployment will drive a 10% increase in food bank usage nationally. Those are numbers from the 2008-09 recession.
We're in a new world here, to be very clear. We have never had unemployment low and quadrupled the amount of food bank usage. That's why you all ought to be very concerned.
The other correlation I might add to Ms. Nicholls' testimony is the correlation between those experiencing food insecurity and race. In Toronto, 8% of our population is Black, and 23% of them are food bank users. One per cent are indigenous, and 5% of them are food bank users.