Here’s the first thing you need to know about the new “National School Food Program” you might have heard about: There is no national school food program. There is even less a national school food program than there is a national daycare program, even less than there is a “national pharmacare deal.”

The “national pharmacare deal” is at least a piece of legislation. The school food program is a press release, with details to come in the budget. And like national pharmacare (in which neither Quebec nor Alberta is interested), national school food isn’t really national at all.