Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $400,000 that we’ve given to the Food First Foundation has gone out to the schools this year in 2010-2011, as the Minister said. While we haven’t done a detailed evaluation of this as it was a one-year project, there have been some concerns identified in terms of the increased workload it places on schools to administer programs, because it does require people to prepare the food and to also store the food in some cases, which might be a challenge in some schools. Those are some of the issues that have been highlighted. We do plan to continue to work interdepartmentally to support healthy choices and to teach food nutrition, as well as things like active living and healthy living overall. We do work interdepartmentally from that perspective. We do plan to continue to make sure that we’re sharing information on different programs and different supports that are available that could support things like nutrition programs and make sure that information is available to schools and other early childhood programs and other programs that require nutritional programs.
Mr. Daniels on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 14th, 2011
Daniels
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