The reason is probably that most educational matters are handled from the provincial level.

Stopping hunger in school-age may very well be a national priority, but I’m just saying this is the way it is set up now: in a way that a national committee for a school matter isn’t the norm in Canada.

As long as we don’t get to the point where the US did, which is to declare pizza a vegetable in order to skirt the rules.

It would definitely be an improvement. I’ve been involved with both volunteer/municipal and provincial/public health programs to provide food in schools, and the story is constantly one of trying to do more with less. More kids (and more of those kids in need), higher prices and less community/government support. (In terms of both funds and volunteers.)