Health committee  We would certainly ask the federal government to continue robust funding for the various agencies—CIHR and the different agencies that are supporting research projects—and perhaps have them look at the term of funding for many of these. The other thing we've been very pleased ab

Health committee  I agree. We would certainly plead that prevention is the last thing that should be cut, and the programs to support those kinds of activities. Otherwise, we're just going to continue in this cycle of ever-increasing health care costs.

Health committee  I can comment on that a bit. There are lots of projects going on across this country. If you come to our conference, you'll see posters and presentations of all kinds on fascinating things that are going on around food security. I don't think there's a magic bullet. I think it r

Health committee  I have just a quick comment, because Cathy would like to join in. We think there needs to be a joint approach. You need to control the environment for obesity as well as personal behaviour and personal responsibility, and in the environmental side there is a role for regulation,

Health committee  Cathy may want to join me. I want to mention, because I think it relates to some of the other--

Health committee  Some of the most important work we did in our project was around community capacity-building. We looked at aboriginal communities in B.C. and recognized that a top-down approach wasn't going to work. You had to do it from the bottom up. The Canadian Cancer Society led this effort

Health committee  I can start, and others will chime in. In terms of the federal government's role, I think it has several. One is obviously a coordinating and convening role, in the sense that it has a lot of potential to be the leader in bringing parties together. The Public Health Agency and H

Health committee  Thanks, Cathy. It's a great pleasure to be here with you. In the short time available, I'm going to highlight several areas we think are of importance. I won't read the brief. I wanted to start by saying that Cathy and I have just come from the Chronic Disease Prevention Allia

Health committee  Right. There hasn't been progress yet on this issue in B.C. That's something we would like to see. And we know a number of jurisdictions are involved. You need to start with the television advertising, and also social media. We are concerned with the growth of social media. The

Health committee  Yes, it's certainly very much part of our policy work. We've been talking, obviously, with the provincial government about that, because there was a provincial jurisdiction issue there. A lot of studies have been done on jurisdictions that have introduced such a tax. One of the

Health committee  Great to see you.

Health committee  We have, in fact, in our proposals to the provincial government, recommended that this is something that should be considered. Certainly, hearing what we did today from the restaurant association, we know it's not easy, and I think we need to look at it somewhat differently, perh

Health committee  We'd like to focus our suggestions on the issue that is of growing concern in Canada and elsewhere and that you've been hearing about at the committee, the increasing levels of unhealthy weights among both adults and children. As you've heard from others, currently a quarter of