Larry McCormick on Action Plan For Food Security

In the House of Commons on October 19th, 1998. See this statement in context.

Action Plan For Food SecurityOral Question Period

October 19th, 1998 / 2:45 p.m.

Liberal

Larry McCormick Liberal Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox And Addington, ON

Mr. Speaker, last Friday we commemorated World Food Day. Some time next year there will be six billion people on this earth. In a world that produces enough food to feed every man, woman and child, more than 800 million people do not have enough to eat.

Could the minister of agriculture please tell me what the government is going to do?

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