Abstract
Within the realm of Canadian public policy, the mass-proliferation of food banks, particularly in the wake of COVID-19, represents a critical failure of the Canadian state to appropriately support its citizens. In this paper, I use my lived experience as a food bank manager at the University of Victoria Students’ Society, coupled with my experience as a public policy student, to explore why Canadian food security is so deeply intertwined with small-scale nonprofits, how the current model leaves much experiencing food security with gaps in their support networks, and what potential solutions to this issue could look like.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Food security, Food Banks, Canada, Food access, Public policy