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The Globe and Mail is running a five-part series of essays by the Charles Taylor Prize finalists tackling Canadian issues.
Merrily Weisbord, author of The Love Queen of Malabar, is currently a crowd favourite for her essay "We're ignoring vital issues." She is leading the public opinion poll at 39%.
"It’s discomforting to watch politicians spend billions on self-serving attack ads and staged announcements of new prisons and fighter planes, while ignoring such vital issues as that which the People’s Food Policy Project calls “a crisis in Canada’s food system.” In our country, child hunger grows at an alarming rate, food bank use has increased 28 per cent in two years (almost 900,000 people in March of 2010, 38 per cent under 18) and the average farm income in Canada is negative $20,000 a year. If farmers didn’t work outside the farm, there would be no family farms."
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