Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq: UN Food Security

Food Security Dept: Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who's from a hamlet in Nunavut called Gjoa Haven, met with a UN food security official on Wednesday, but said he didn't understand the real problems faced by the Inuit. She said environmentalists and activists were the problem behind any food insecurity, according to CBC. Food security, she said, is "about the fights that we have with groups like the European Union that want to stop the seal hunt and/or the Pew Foundation who wants to put a moratorium on fishing and/or the polar bear activists." A federal cabinet minister slammed activist groups who she says interfere in Inuit traditions, blaming them for food security problems in the North. "He s ill-informed. I found it a bit patronizing and just another academic studying us from afar who's going to make comments about the challenges that we have," Aglukkaq said following her meeting with Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.