Given their record, you’d think the UN would have the good sense to lie low on this topic;
UN special rapporteur on the right to food Olivier de Schutter spent 11 days in Canada last year. He went to Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton. He met with federal, provincial and municipal officials, aboriginal representatives, farmers, academics, and other members of civil-society groups.
He presented his final report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on Monday. He claims a “growing number of people” are food-insecure in Canada, quoting estimates that vary between 1.92 million and 4.3 million people. Canada’s population is a little over 34 million.
De Schutter says such food insecurity is due to Conservative government policies, specifically the abolition of the mandatory long-form census and the Canadian Wheat Board…
Food is not a “right”. Nothing that has to be provided by other people is. You can grow your own, of course, and you have the right to that.
The only way the abolition of the long-form census (a stroke of genius by the Harper government) would lead to food shortages is if it were edible. I think I still have mine in a pile of paper. I could donate it to the UN parasite if he’s hungry.
The best “national food strategy” has always been and will always be capitalism.
De Schitter is wrong every step of the way. I’m glad we have a sensible federal government who knows enough to ignore him and his idiotic recommendations.
Is it wrong to want banjos to just appear out of thin air and smack some of these idiots in the face?
Let’s ask the Ukrainians about food insecurity under Socialist governments…
Cyclist “What an idiot; it’s the supply management that is keeping poultry and dairy prices artificially high thus harming low income families.”
I can’t figure out how even the commies in Canada are in favor charging the poor twice as much for staples to subsidize millionaire farmers. Almost all farmers in the managed markets are millionaires as the industry has concentrated so much. A farmer with 100 milk cows owns $1 million worth of quota alone before he pulls his first teat.
De Schutter’s (and all UN bureaucrats) expense account should be released to the public. Let’s see how he dealt with food insecurity and a lack of affordable housing. I expect to see plenty of steak and lobster, but no Spam, on his bills. His hotel suites were undoubtedly luxurious and expensive. Nothing but the best for UN bureaucrats living on taxpayer tribute.
I’m not one for the human rights commission, or whatever your country calls it.
But there is a fine line, like deporting a 20 year old back to Afghanistan to be tortured and killed. If he is in the UK, then send him to court and put him in jail. America did this years ago (and still are) with prisoners they suspected of being terrorists. Sent them off to be tortured and killed most were found to be innocent. One of them that comes to mind spent years in prison tortured and abused finally made it back to Canada. The documents that sent off to prison were false, as your dealing with hear say from a third world country. To this day he cant go to the US this would mean they were at fault and governments will never admit that.
And that has what to do with the subject we were on ? Our Human right commission in Canada only strong arms middle class white heterosexual males into paying for hurting the feelings of any minority group. Nothing else. The subject you mention was handled by External Affairs and our regular courts, as opposed to our Kangaroo courts called HRC’s. Your DHS also has children and seniors as alleged terrorists on the no fly list and it’s almost impossible to get off said list. I certainly agree with you that to screw up anything at all you only have to let the Government handle it, yours or ours , but we were talking about the United Nations , the home of despots and escaped mental patients.