Thank you, that would be perfect.
Thank you very much for your testimony today.
Erica, I have to say, it's always wonderful to meet an Olympian. Thank you so much for sharing your time and your thoughts with us today. It's wonderful.
I sat for a bit on a Heart and Stroke advisory panel, and I heard about a study from Queen's University that I thought was fascinating. The conclusion was that it's better to be active and a little bit overweight than it is to be inactive and the right weight. I draw on that sort of health conclusion when I listen to the conflicted testimony here. No question, I think that anyone on this panel is going to say that continued advertising on television, radio, and in stores of foods that are unhealthy for children is unacceptable, and the bill aims at targeting that.
There seems to be, I hope, an unintended consequence, though, when it hits sports sponsorship. My kids all grew up in sports, and when I see Participaction, Hockey Canada, Softball Canada, and Canada Soccer, all of whom were part of my kids' upbringing, being potentially impacted by this legislation, then I'm really concerned about that
I understood the original bill was eight pages and that huge sections have been stripped out, particularly around deeming, and where it did ban, it didn't say sponsorship couldn't happen. That's all gone now. I'm wondering, in the specific recommendations that you made, it sounded more like the food industry's or the advertising industry's concerns than sports sponsorship's concerns.
I worry that you're causing what is a good bill.... If it no longer really impacts sports sponsorship, why are you here?