Food quantity and affordability not improving, StatsCan suggests

Being able to afford to enough nutritious food continues to be a struggle for some Canadians, according to a new report. 

Wednesday’s report from Statistics Canada used five years of data from the Canadian Community Health Survey to compare rates of food insecurity. 

"Food insecurity rates have remained relatively stable over time," the report’s authors concluded. 

"Every year from 2007 to 2012, approximately five per cent of Canadian children and eight per cent of Canadian adults lived in food insecure households. This means that they did not have access to a sufficient variety or quantity of food due to lack of money."