Recently, we acknowledged that the one age group that we were not reaching was young children, those in primary school.  At almost the same moment we were asked to become members of the Coalition for Healthy School Food whose mandate is to ensure a universal healthy food program in schools.  Did you know that 2/3 of Canadian children do not eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables? Or that Canada is the only G7 country that does not offer universal meal programs in schools? Canada spends an estimated 13 billion dollars per year on health problems linked to unhealthy eating.  This is just wrong and we are hoping, in our small way, to make a positive contribution to this problem.  The other thing that happened at the same moment was that we became aware of a primary school in the West Island who had a dozen students who for one reason or another, were arriving at school each day without lunch.  As of the beginning of November and thanks to collaboration with Equipe Entreprise, we are ensuring that those children are receiving healthy lunches, five days a week.

These are opportunities.  Opportunities to help improve the food security of some, to have input when it comes to policy making and to forge new relations, new ways of doing things and new ways to continue to realize our mandate.