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Over 70% of Nunavut families with children between the ages of 3-5 are food insecure. Poverty, climate change and high food prices mean that many families in Nunavut go hungry. The UN Rapporteur recently issued a report about Canada's 800,000 families who are food insecure, calling food insecurity in our country a "great concern". The Conservative MP for Nunavut, Leona Aglukkaq, shamed Nunavummiut with her immature and out-of-touch response to the UN Rapporteur.
"...That issue lies at the heart of hunger and want in Nunavut: low incomes...."
We, the people of Nunavut, deserve better from our federal government. Please sign this petition to ask for concrete, effective change that will address poverty and food insecurity in our communities.
Read the UN Rapporteur's report for yourself: http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/201205_canadaprelim_en.pdf
Read the response by MP Leona Aglukkaq: http://www.leonaaglukkaq.ca/media_/riding-news/meeting-with-un-special-rapporteur
Read an analysis by Nunavut writer and activist Jack Hicks in "Northern Public Affairs": http://www.northernpublicaffairs.ca/index/hicks-aglukkaqs-shameful-response-to-un-food-envoy/
May 30, 2012 - 12:25 pm
Two things you'll hate reading about
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
"....We don't know who, exactly, is responsible for composing Leona Aglukkaq's talking points.
But whoever it is, she should fire them. Or at least transfer her or him to a task where she or he may be less likely to inflict potentially catastrophic damage on the Nunavut MP's political career.
The phrase "talking points," by the way, is insider jargon for those lists of pre-scripted lines and phrases politicians must memorize and regurgitate on command. You've got it made when you can make your listeners believe you thought it all up by yourself and recite your lines with all the fake sincerity you can muster.
But this past May 16, when the Harper government brains trust sent Aglukkaq out to discredit Olivier De Schutter, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on food security, such techniques accomplished little for her or her constituents.
They, and Aglukkaq, forgot that if her Nunavut constituency were a country, it would rank 100th in the world with respect to life expectancy. A report containing those findings, done by a respected group of Ottawa-based social researchers, appeared just two days after Aglukkaq aimed her flame-thrower at De Schutter.
Bad timing, to say the least. The report found that, overall, Nunavut would rank only 38th on the UN's human development index, a measurement tool that combines life expectancy, education and income.
In a more thoughtful response, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, in their submission prepared for De Schutter, pointed to a far more relevant issue than anything contained in the straw man abuse featured within Aglukkaq's rant.
That issue lies at the heart of hunger and want in Nunavut: low incomes...."
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674two_things_youll_hate_reading_about
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