Hey Canada, Why don't you have food stamps?

TALIA RALPH:For as long as I’ve lived in the US, I’ve heard Americans gleefully laud my home country for its cheap education, socialized healthcare, and free prescription drug program. You guys threaten to move north every time the political landscape in the great USA skews a bit right (clearly, your understanding of immigration law is somewhat lacking). Yet it is a little-known, and highly ironic, fact that Canada is missing any formal nutrition assistance programs at the federal or provincial level. Where America has federally-funded programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), nutrition for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and school lunch programs, Canada has… nothing. Plus, we’ve got Stephen Harper, who is basically our version of George Bush, Jr., but with no expiration date.

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