Promise History
2.12.01 - “[W]e will deliver on our budget commitment and make food programs available in every school in New Brunswick starting in 2021-22.”
18-Jun-2024
We cannot consider this promise fully fulfilled, as it does not meet the promised timetable or scale. However, due to the significant increase in financial aid to schools in the province this year and the stated intention to eventually reach all schools, we prefer to classify it as a promise partially achieved
The $2 million contract had been awarded to Food Depot Alimentaire for the purchase and distribution of healthy food in 135 schools around the province during the current school year.
“In 2020, we promised to ensure all students in New Brunswick have access to healthy food at school,” said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Bill Hogan. “We made good on that promise in the 2023-24 school year and are grateful for our partnership with Food Depot Alimentaire and other community partners to make this possible. We will once again be investing $2 million this coming school year to ensure students can continue to access healthy foods at school.”
19-Oct-2022
The food program, which was only announced in the 2022-2023 year, is not province-wide. There are 294 schools in the province and this program covers only 110 of them.
Opposition parties concerned N.B. school food program misses the mark
12-Oct-2021
“Bleasdale was ecstatic to hear the Progressive Conservatives make a campaign promise of a $1-million provincial school food program for the 2021-22 school year.
But more than a month into the new school year, the government of Blaine Higgs has said little on the progress of the program. […]
A pilot program was set up in partnership with the Heart & Stroke Foundation in the 2020-2021 school year, initially featuring 10 schools. […]
The department has confirmed an extra nine schools were added to the project to “ensure representation of all seven school districts in the province in both Anglophone and Francophone sectors,” and to include “a variety of food programs ranging from schools with no food programs to schools with comprehensive programs.”
Volunteers, advocates await news on school food program
17-Dec-2020
“Before the Higgs government invests $1 million to make sure every school in New Brunswick has access to a food program, a pilot project that was due to start this fall is supposed to help determine how to spend that money to get the best results.
The province said 10 locations would be chosen for the $200,000 pilot, but the executive council office has so far declined to say which schools were chosen and why.”
Reference Documents
“In 2020, with a financial commitment from the Government of New Brunswick’s Health, Social Development, and Education Departments, we piloted our program in 19 schools throughout the province. We aim to have funding to provide programming to as many schools as possible for the 2021/2022 academic year. Our ultimate goal is to support all NB schools to build sustainable and robust school food programming.”
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