Julie Dabrusin at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On November 17th, 2020. See this statement in context.

November 17th, 2020 / 4:45 p.m.

Liberal

Julie Dabrusin Liberal Toronto—Danforth, ON

Excellent. I'm sorry about that.

I was thanking you for being here, but I want to talk about food and food policy because that's an area I am particularly interested in.

I was looking up some information about how two billion people suffer from malnutrition in one form or another around the world, and that women and girls are at the highest risk—that 60% of the world's hungry are women, according to the World Food Programme.

I'm wondering if you can focus a bit on what we are doing now on food and nutrition.

Also, because you had mentioned earlier that we had taken particular action once the lockdown came into effect in March, what did we do to deal with food security because of COVID?

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