When did food insecurity start in Canada?
                                
                                
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                                While Canada is a major agricultural producer, recent data shows that nearly 10 million Canadians struggle with food insecurity. The roots of this issue are complex, but awareness of widespread food insecurity as a contemporary problem in Canada largely emerged during the economic recession of the early 1980s.