Ex-Senator Percy Mockler engages in the fight against hunger in Canada

Ex-Senator Percy Mockler joined the Board of Directors of Food Banks Canada this summer. The neo-Brunswick politician calls the number of Canadians who are hungry in 2025 as unacceptable “and is giving himself as a retirement mission to join the fight against this scourge.

Originally from Saint-Léonard, Percy Mockler was a deputy for six mandates in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, Minister, then Senator for 15 years. He left political life in 2024 at the age of 75.

And it is not because it is retired that he intends to put his convictions aside. When he was asked to integrate the Board of Directors of Food Bank Canada, he did not hesitate.

I thought it was a ” Fit ” of my careerhe says. I have always had the goal of making our regions a better place to live, a better place to work, a better place to raise our children and also a better place to reach out to the most vulnerable.

Of his 42 years in politics, Percy Mockler has often publicly insisted on government’s obligations towards people living in poverty.

It is also that he understands the issue since he lived it during his youth in Saint-Léonard.

My mother was single -parent and had two children. I knew the Wellfare. I remember the importance of receiving, at Christmas and even Easter [des dons de la part] people from our communityhe shares.

This experience, with my public career, well, I said: “I still have time, I want to be a volunteer”.

The Board of Directors at Food Banque Canada which he joined is made up of people around the country.

My presence is for the Atlanticnote Percy Mockler. [Le conseil] does an exceptional job to touch the 5,500 food banks across the country.

When we look at our big country, no one in Canada should be hungry. However, the need to use food banks has never been so importanthe continues.

Great challenges

For his future mandate, Percy Mockler said to see clearly: We have great challengeshe admits.

The 2024 Banks 2024 annual report of Faima Canada, released last October, indicated that 18 % of people who use food banks have a job, but still cannot reach both ends.

More than 2 million people have used food banksadd Percy Mockler. The need to use food banks has almost doubled in the past five years.

Although data from the 2025 Faim Faim is not yet available, the current trend does not seem to have changed and the cycle of worried poverty Percy Mockler.

He attests that something in the system must change To cease the increase in the number of people using food banks in the country.

It is important to look to find a solution that will continue, which will help our communities and then which will also help the most vulnerable people to get out of it and also to have careers and have good jobshe sums up.

I appeal to local governments, provincial governments, then the federal government to look [sur l’enjeu de la faim au pays] Because it is unacceptable.

Percy Mockler However, adds that the responsibility of finding hunger solutions in Canada does not only go through governments. I think we all have a role to play: our communities, our volunteers, corporations, people, donorshe claims.

Percy Mockler believes that the important work that Canada’s food bank is doing would benefit from being better known to everyone in the country. Particularly for its expertise and business sense in the search for hunger solutions.

With information from the show The morning