There’s a rather significant caveat in the National School Food Policy. It relies on the collaboration of the provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments with the hopes that it could start “as early as” the 2024-25 school year.
Look how long it’s taking all the provinces to fully sign up for the national daycare program.
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/edsc-esdc/Em20-189-2024-eng.pdf