Agriculture committee  First, I would like to argue for prevention, to be honest. We should prevent it from happening at all. I really do love that there's a lot of upcycling going on, and there are economic drivers for upcycling, which is really great. Again, I'm going to go back to mandating measur

Agriculture committee  You're right. This should be prevention. Feeding people is prevention. We're all going to pay for it, in the end. The research is very clear. The health outcomes of children are very negative. We know they have lower educational outcomes in math and English—in all subjects. They

Agriculture committee  A couple of countries are doing this already. In the U.K., they are eliminating best-before dates on a number of products. In Australia, they've changed best-before to use-by date. I think we need to investigate what other countries are doing and doing well. We don't have to rein

Agriculture committee  I'm with Neil on that. Any time we can increase anybody's funding, the better.

Agriculture committee  Are you referring to the impact of the rescued food? We know that when we keep it in landfills, it creates methane gas, because there's no oxygen in landfills. Most of our food ends up in landfills. We know that when we keep it out, we are not emitting that methane gas. Economi

Agriculture committee  I think it was wrapped up. It was just that there are social benefits.

Agriculture committee  The first one would be bringing back the surplus food rescue program. There's more than enough food in this country to feed everybody. It also supports producers. It supports individuals and families. It supports the social network and the economy. That's number one. Number two,

Agriculture committee  Honestly, I'm going to go back to.... I think if we mandate measurement for businesses to measure their food loss and waste, that will drive them to the innovation of “we have to give some away”, because there has to be a target that they hit.

Agriculture committee  That's such a great question, but I have to be honest. Second Harvest is an environmental organization, so we're about food waste and trying to make sure that it doesn't go into landfill. I think there are lots of levers that we could maybe pull. I don't want to say that's one o

Agriculture committee  The government funding was the COVID-19 funding, and we're not receiving any of it anymore. That funding has stopped. Honestly, we could use another $30 million, and even then it wouldn't be enough to meet the need.

Agriculture committee  The grocery chains are, absolutely. They use the food rescue app. All of them are on it. They're not all partnered with us. I think Metro is partnered with Food Banks Canada, but Loblaws, Sobeys and Empire are all partnered with probably both of us, to be honest. I'm sorry. What

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to appear before you and discuss the critical issue of food security and the impacts that rising food costs are having on Canadians. First, I'd like to say that I agree one hundred per cent with everything Mr. Hethering

Agriculture committee  Exactly.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. It's always funding. That's the reality of life. You just need more funding. Our biggest challenge is transportation. The food is out there. The latest research we did showed that only 4% of businesses that have surplus food were donating it. It's a great opportunit

Agriculture committee  There's a 58% waste.