Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Sanders, let me start. I think you just touched on the issue I want to touch on, which is parental concern. I have an issue with food labeling. I'll get to it in a moment, but first of all, when it comes to the promotion of healthy eating in schools, it's been more or less a case, as the expression goes, of “the stick instead of the carrot”, which is to say that we outlaw certain types of foods in the schools simply for reasons that are obvious: they're just not good for your health whatsoever. So we promote healthy living, but at the same time we provide the tools by which schools can say no to the more destructive foods.
At the same time, that rule does not apply when they go domestic, when they go back home. Ergo, when it comes to labelling, I don't think the private sector—certainly in the case of North America—is completely up front about what product they are selling and how they label. For instance, something that is low in fat is not necessarily good for you, as I'm sure we can all agree. A lot of the children on, say—as I think the description was—the lower end of the socio-economic demographic are displaying signs of obesity and in the later years of late onset diabetes. It's a huge problem, certainly, for the government and the health sector and for universal health care delivery.
That being said, I would like you to comment on where we are in the home. We know what we're doing in the school and we'd like to do a lot more. But where do you see the home front right now, when kids are returning and both parents, say, are working? It's harder for them to make healthy choices.