About 200 volunteers packed emergency food bags at the Moisson Montreal food bank on Saturday to help the city's increasing number of working poor this holiday season.

Volunteers packed the emergency bags at around 20 tables while others whisked them away into storage containers. They will be picked up and distributed over the holidays.

"We're the biggest food bank in Canada, which is very sad," Richard Daneau, the executive director of Moisson Montreal, told CBC News.

"It shows how acute the hunger problem is in Montreal."

Thirty years ago, it was the homeless and people on social assistance who needed help from the food bank, Daneau said.

Now, even people with jobs sometimes have trouble affording food.

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