Thank you very much for the question.
It is not my assertion. It is the Statistics Canada study's assertion.
I would refer you to the study, which we sent to the clerk and it is available. The only thing I can surmise is by taking cues from the other intervenors. There must be specific sociological phenomena at play that determine obesity outcomes in Thunder Bay that are different from those in Victoria. Your capacity to read a crystal ball is probably much better than mine, but presumably those factors would have been identified in the study.
I would suspect that there are climatic differences as well. Thunder Bay and Victoria certainly don't have the same climate.