Federal Election 2025
The federal election campaign was an opportunity to hear new policy ideas to address the huge challenges affecting the right to food in Canada. Challenges like the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the climate crisis, and a trade war. Federal leadership and decisive action can shift us toward a future where everyone can eat with joy and dignity.
N.L. Candidate Survey and Responses
We sent each confirmed candidate in N.L. a survey asking how they would support the right to food. The 16 survey questions were submitted by people with lived and living experience of poverty and by staff from Food First NL and the YWCA St. John’s.
Survey Responses by Riding
These Google Sheets include candidates’ full, unedited responses. We received nine survey responses by election day.
Federal Policies to Advance the Right to Food
Food First NL worked with partners across Canada throughout 2024 and 2025 to advance a set of federal policy priorities on the right to food. Here are the four overarching policy recommendations that we looked for in party platforms:
Enhance existing income supports
Resource and engage with the movement to create a basic income in Canada
Set targets for food insecurity reduction
Invest in Indigenous food sovereignty
Advocacy Campaigns About Food Insecurity
Many organizations working on the right to food or related topics used the federal election to advocate for strong policy action. There were three main campaigns from national organizations:
Community Food Centre Canada’s No More Scraps Campaign
Food Secure Canada’s Eat Think Vote campaign
Food Banks Canada’s Federal Elections Toolkit
The Lived and Living Experience Advisory Group (LLEAG) in Newfoundland and Labrador also released a list of recommendations for a more just food system (PDF). They focused on increasing incomes and challenging corporate power and profits in our food system.
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