Health committee  Thank you, Sally I'll be very brief, Mr. Chair. We know there are lessons to be learned from tobacco control. While we have said at the Heart and Stroke Foundation that fat is the new tobacco, we do not believe the food industry and the tobacco industry are equal. We believe t

Health committee  Thank you. That's a good question. We have worked at this across the country, both at the Heart and Stroke Foundation as well as through the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada. There are a number of initiatives going on across the country. Ontario is one jurisdiction

Health committee  Just to add a comment to that and to follow up on your second point, there is emerging research in Canada that also shows a preponderance of fast food and, I would say, higher-fat food choice establishments in lower-income neighbourhoods than there are in middle- and upper-income

Health committee  I can speak to a couple of things you mentioned. The alliances that are at the provincial level--the chronic disease and other healthy living alliances--definitely have groups concerned with poverty involved in them. The recommendations that they tend to bring forward tend to be

Health committee  One thing the federal government can do—it's the sole jurisdiction of the federal government—is to improve our data infrastructure and invest the money we need for a lifelong cohort study, so that we can understand health outcomes and factors that influence us over a lifetime for

Health committee  I would also add that much of the research that has been funded is still relatively recent research, which Diane pointed out, and the huge spike in research is still relatively new. Some of the research is ongoing. I think many of the things that we've talked about here today i

Health committee  That's a good question; it's a very good question. Sometimes the wheels of government turn slowly and sometimes they can turn very quickly. It really depends on the issue. This should be given a high priority by the government. I know we've had a commitment to it for four years

Health committee  Why I think that's the case?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Good afternoon. My name is Stephen Samis. I'm director of health policy for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. I'm also chair of the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, although I'm here today in my

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  This bill in particular is one effort by the federal government to outline the importance of air pollution and climate change, and it stresses actions that the federal government will take within a regulatory environment. We were trying to make the point that it is a very regulat

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I think that's true, and I think that's partly why all the witnesses here today are talking about separating these things out, drawing clear lines of cause and effect, and establishing the most appropriate measures--targets and compliance measures--for each. Although they're inte

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I think the bill would be wise to recognize vulnerable populations and to identify some of those. I think it would be likely helpful in helping the federal government identify the kinds of actions and the aggressiveness of its actions with respect to the various ways in which you

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's exactly the same situation for us. We have had about three days to prepare and we didn't have time to put this into writing and then have it translated before coming before the committee. We would be happy to do that as well.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada doesn't have a position on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, the timelines, and the targets for that. That is why I was pretty careful in my comments to speak particularly about air pollution and air particulate matter as part of

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes.