Thank you very much for the question.
Certainly as we're moving forward and have put a priority on childhood obesity, we're looking at all measures, screen time being one of them--the time kids are spending in front of computers, in front of the television, playing video games. Those are a concern for all of us. We are looking carefully, both internationally and within Canada, at what are the best practices, at what are the ways we can support parents, support kids in schools, support communities in finding ways to get kids moving.
Also, it's from the perspective of avoiding the impacts of marketing and advertising to kids. If they're not watching so much TV, they're not getting bombarded with those advertisements either.
So there are lot of benefits to that approach, going forward.
I will come back to the question of the federal-provincial-territorial work around childhood obesity. This is, from our perspective, very groundbreaking and very exciting. We have all the health ministers across the country lined up together. They've recognized the problem of childhood obesity and they've said they're going to work together. But not only that, they're going to champion this, because they're going to reach out to other sectors, as health ministers, and ask, how can you be a part of the solution?
This is not about saying government is going to do everything. This is about government being the enabler. Through the process of engagement that will be launched in the next few weeks, we're specifically going to go to youth, who have the best ideas about what can be done to help them be champions within their own schools, within their own communities, and within their own families for moving forward on childhood obesity.
This is about starting a national dialogue with Canadians, and it's about having Canadians be the innovators, as we know we can be, and the finders of those solutions. We're in a really exciting time in this country around the prevention of chronic disease, and clearly childhood obesity is where we need to start. We want those early behaviours to be the best behaviours. We don't want to have to change behaviours when they're teenagers; we want them to carry those behaviours through their teens and into adulthood.
The framework I talked about in my introduction and the work of FPT governments is the way the federal government is exercising its leadership role in its jurisdictional mandate.