Health committee  I think it's part of a solution. There is limited access to these kinds of programs based not only on income, but on geographic location. So it is benefiting a certain population.

Health committee  Thanks for your question. Yes, the results that I presented to you today were the results of our pilot study, so that was really just to give us the evidence we wanted to explore as to whether to go forward. We're now spreading out across the province of B.C. and measuring 1,500

Health committee  First of all, we addressed the parental responsibility earlier. I think that's only part of the solution. Again, I think physical education is only a part of the solution. So again, that belongs to the provinces, but resourcing around these larger models that involve the communit

Health committee  I would like to address this also, because I do think that physical education is an important part of the solution, but it is no longer the whole solution. It is about changing the culture of schools. It's about healthy eating. It's about making the places where these children sp

Health committee  Yes, it's a lessening of physical activity generally by children. The other part is that you may be surprised that there are no really good data in this country. So when I look back over the last decade, I'm looking at self-reported heights and weights. That's someone calling you

Health committee  I think CCHS is actually doing direct measures of health and weight, I believe for the first time. Before it was just a small sampling of Canadians, very small numbers in each age bracket. We just do not have good national data. And I think physical activity could also be added t

Health committee  Sure. What I'm referring to there is what in the parlance is called the socio-ecological model. It means there has to be horizontal and vertical integration. Vertical integration means it's bottom up and top down. It's the ministry...it's our larger environment, it's the built co

Health committee  I think we've known for a really long time that all children become less active as they get older. We also saw a plummet in positive psychosocial health indicators as children approach adolescence. So there's no difference, really, and we have known that for a long time. Those fi

Health committee  Yes, that came from Andrea.

Health committee  I'd like to first of all address the comment earlier, and I just want to be really clear that this is in no way suggesting a national program, because we're not talking about programs. We're talking about capitalizing on existing initiatives and coming together, as Kelly pointed

Health committee  I would encourage renewal--

Health committee  --and fresh resources, yes, with fresh integration and maybe fresh packaging.

Health committee  I do think these groups should come together and revisit that. As you say, there's an understanding now of what CAHPERD is, and maybe we need to reintroduce all of those things with packaging that represents some of these other initiatives as well. I think it is pretty comprehe

Health committee  You had lots of points and interesting questions. The one that sort of rose above many of your comments was around integration. I think this is absolutely key. The role the federal government can play is in coming up with the federal solution as to connecting these initiatives ac

Health committee  Thank you very much. I would like to extend my thanks to the members for allowing me to share with you what I think might be one strategy or one model that we have introduced in British Columbia. We hope it may be considered as a solution to the problem that I think we've all ag