Health committee  I understand where you're coming from. There's nothing to prevent the marketing of these products to parents. Kids coming and nagging the parents to buy them things because they're getting the marketing messages that make them desire sugar-sweetened drinks or drinks like fruit ju

Health committee  I haven't seen any drinkable yogourts that aren't full of sugar. I would like a kid to come home and say, “Mommy, I'm thirsty”, and turn on the tap and have a glass of water.

Health committee  That's not what's happening.

Health committee  I would say that kids' hockey would be allowed and should be allowed. If the Tim Hortons corporation wants to sponsor children's hockey, we would encourage that, but the children don't need to be billboards for the product.

Health committee  These things will be determined in regulations. My humble opinion is that we need to take a good pragmatic look at it. Scoreboards are very nice. They're very expensive. Communities don't have the money in their budgets to buy them. Maybe you could limit the size of the branding

Health committee  I think it was in 1982 or 1980.

Health committee  Yes, and the Quebec government used the Consumer Protection Act, which is quite different from the Food and Drugs Act.

Health committee  That's not my field of expertise. From discussing it with the people involved in the obesity issue in Quebec, I know they are still working on the issue. It's by no means solved, and they welcome this legislation because it expands the amount of advertising that.... What happene

Health committee  The discussions were really quite broad. Once I realized that the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization were looking at how to define what is unhealthy, specifically towards the targeting of advertising to children, I realized there's a lot of researc

Health committee  I'm an “Honourable”.

Health committee  Not at all. It's completely involved with the targeted marketing to children.

Health committee  Good afternoon, Chair and committee members. Thank you for providing me this opportunity to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health to give you background on Bill S-228, the child health protection act, which prohibits the marketing of unhealthy food and

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that taking on a real active role during the 150th anniversary would be great. We've talked about using the period between the national health and fitness day, the first Saturday in June, and Canada's birthday, July 1, to have a period where all across the country people

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's a target that we should have. I would like to ask the members of Parliament in the room today, how many of you have engaged with your mayors in your ridings to get involved in this? If you haven't, why not? We've tried to make it very easy. I would encourage you to d

Canadian Heritage committee  Definitely there are things the federal government can do, and I agree with my colleague Chris Jones here, because the schools are very critical in this. You have all the children in the schools, and if we're going to take physical literacy seriously, we have to measure it. I t