Food insecurity in Canada. PROOF is a program at the University of Toronto which studies household food insecurity across Canada. New stats will be forthcoming soon, but there's much to talk about as 5.8 million Canadians, including 1.4 million children were food insecure when the last set of stats were released. Inflation will have driven those numbers up. Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk, Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and lead investigator for PROOF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices