Canada to provide C$250 mln to U.N. to address global food crisis, says Trudeau

Canadian Primary Minister Justin Trudeau speaks for the duration of a bilteral conference with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (not pictured) at the ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Picture

June 23 (Reuters) – Canada will present C$250 million ($193 million) to the United Nations to deal with a food crisis exacerbated by offer chain constraints and significant inflation just after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Key Minister Justin Trudeau stated on Thursday.

“We offered fifty percent a billion bucks at the commencing of the yr (to the United Nations’ Earth Meals Software), and this is an more C$250 million to tackle this severe crisis,” Trudeau told reporters at the Commonwealth summit in Kigali, Rwanda.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a important world-wide grain grower and exporter, has afflicted the worldwide economic system by driving up gasoline, oil and foodstuff price ranges.

($1 = 1.2979 Canadian dollars)

Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Steve SCherer in Ottawa and Jonathan Oatis

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