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‘8.6 million Canadians are now food insecure’: Amanda MacKenzie and Neil Hetherington on how government policy is failing disabled Canadians

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Neil Hetherington, CEO of The Daily Bread Food Bank sorts through groceries in Toronto, March 18, 2020. /Chris Young/The Canadian Press.

Amanda MacKenzie, national director of external affairs at March of Dimes Canada, and Neil Hetherington, CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto, discuss how inadequate public benefits, the labyrinth of government rules and regulations, and poor policy design are ultimately responsible for high rates of food insecurity among disabled Canadians, and what policymakers can do about it.

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