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Cutting out an important part which is the following line to the exerpt:
There are plenty of programs in Canada, there just isn't a national one because like a lot of things, it's left up to the provinces. But there are food programs and school lunches across Canada. There just isn't a "unified" federal legislation.
I've never heard of school lunches in Alberta. It's entirely likely that our province doesn't have a school lunch program at all.
I guess we'll never know!
So for comparison this program helps 5% of the Alberta student population compared to 60% of the US student population for their program.
Did you ask the Calgary education board what their programs are? The provincial one is just one default program, if you read further you'll find other programs supported by municipality/city/provincial funding.
I'm not against having federal standards and/or funding, but it's not like there aren't any programs.
The same in BC, as far as I'm aware.
You didn't look very far imo