For those of you who were not able to join us at City Hall on Monday morning for the Right to Food in Canada event, a recording of the first hour of the national event with Olivier De Schutter is now online here (skip to 37 minutes for the start).

Despite our federal government’s response to the report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, it was great to participate in a national webinar along with 49 other communities like ours gathered across Canada, followed by a great discussion with a packed house in the Town Hall Room at City Hall in Vancouver.

CBC News reported on how the federal government is dismissing the report: