Health committee  That would be someone else's mandate right here. As you have said, schools are a very key setting to promote and support healthy eating and physical activity. That is certainly clear. And again, as you said, the responsibility for school health is really with the provinces, but

Health committee  I was going to go a little bit further with respect to nutrition profiling.

Health committee  I think we've already talked a little about the vulnerable populations in the north and CAPC and the aboriginal head start program. Certainly those are programs that are under way through the federal government. As well, again, through the FPT access and availability to nutriti

Health committee  We're in this evidence-gathering stage, so we're looking at all different initiatives that have been done around the world. We have funded an international scan to look at what other countries are doing on this. We're also looking at what we're doing in Canada on that. So with

Health committee  I see. There are certainly some applications that we've done. We've taken basically the guidance from the food guide and the guidance from the physical activity guides. We have the program “Eat well and be active”. Basically, it's a way to get across messages, and educators c

Health committee  Could I continue on that as well? Is there a little bit of time left?

Health committee  As well, we've just entered into consultation with respect to guidelines for healthy term infants. We just released those consultations at the beginning of last month. We are looking here at guidance for health professionals with respect to feeding healthy term infants. We are ab

Health committee  Sure. I guess I'm not--

Health committee  That flips over to my area of responsibility. We're responsible for the facts table as it relates to awareness and education. When you're talking about serving sizes, this is an area that has come up in the research that we've done and that other groups have done over the past s

Health committee  It's kind of interesting, actually, because that's a responsibility that's shared between ourselves and the food directorate, and of course we have the Public Health Agency. I will start, I guess, in the role that I have as chair of the sodium working group. As I'm sure most of

Health committee  The nutrition facts education campaign I talked about earlier specifically addresses recommendation 2.6 of the sodium working group. It is about ensuring that Canadians are able to understand the nutrition facts table so they can make better choices about the sodium in those food

Health committee  First, with respect to the first nations and Inuit health branch, that's a different part of Health Canada. It's not my responsibility, or Sammy's responsibility, so we will have to take that question back for a bit more detail. As Sammy mentioned earlier, we will come back with

Health committee  One aspect, of course, with respect to the cost of food is that we do have a nutritious food basket that we have developed. It's basically a costing tool that's available for different jurisdictions, be it the provinces, territories, or Toronto Public Health, for instance, who us

Health committee  Of course there is the aboriginal head start program, which is particular to first nations and Inuit health, and that is administered by a different part of Health Canada. It's not my area of responsibility, nor Dr. Godefroy's.

Health committee  Okay, you're not going to cut me off. I thought the last time we got cut off, didn't we?