Ontario's Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, George Smitherman, was right in saying "Ontarians are at our best when we embrace the diversity of our people and our culture".
His Ministry's bold initiative to amend the Ontario Food Premises Regulation to allow expanded menu options for street food vendors was heralded thusly "By expanding street menus, we are making it possible for our food options to reflect our multiculturalism. We are also helping a new group of entrepreneurs showcase their culture's culinary contribution to their cities."
Yet, as interpreted by the the City of Toronto, Smitherman's well meant changes seem to mean only fifteen new entrepreneurs!
In keeping with its conservative and paternalistic approach to lunch nosh oversight, I hope that the City will use as much care and concern to ensure that what is sold on the streets is locally produced.
They only need to listen to wordsmiths, Oxford University Press, to know that we have all become locavores - and its not just lip-service that made it Oxford's word of the year. Not to mention that is also is a food sourcing policy enshrined in Toronto's Food Charter.
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