Status of Women committee  That's a really good question, actually. Mrs. Stevenson mentioned the diet industry, and it is a multi-billion dollar industry, and I completely concur that's part of the puzzle. This is wrapped up, I'd say, in a particular consumer understanding of youth and adolescence, so I

Status of Women committee  I have two recommendations or there are two areas that might be interesting to examine. The first one is in regard to privacy legislation. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, our private sector privacy legislation, has a reasonable purposes section t

Status of Women committee  The literature that I'm familiar with is more within the communications and sociological disciplines, and it focuses more on body image. But there is quite a bit of work that's been done on body image, both within the community as a whole and in online media and other forms of me

Status of Women committee  Yes. There are best practices. Dove actually has taken the lead as a corporate player and has come up with some really interesting advertising. A magazine in Australia tried to implement that with regular-sized bodies, and their advertisers all pulled and they had to pull the ma

Status of Women committee  The Competition Bureau is beginning a preliminary examination of behavioural targeting and of the marketing model that drives a lot of this kind of advertising. They've been looking at children's privacy and the impact on children. As an unfair trade practice, there is space ther

Status of Women committee  What we found is that the architecture of the site privileges visuality or visualness, which emphasizes the pressure on girls to look a particular way. So like I said, when we originally started this project we assumed that online spaces would be a place where it would be easier

Status of Women committee  I issue caution. Again, it's an age question. I do a lot of research on kids between grades 4 and 11 and we're finding that a large proportion of grade 4 kids have cellphones, for example, and text. A lot of kids have Facebook accounts, even though technically they're not allowe

Status of Women committee  We're talking about a continuum of behaviour and a continuum of environmental factors. I go back to the testimony you've heard about the voice in my head—

Status of Women committee  If that's a question, pizza.

Status of Women committee  As a committee, or as individuals? We've talked about regulation, so perhaps...what's the—

Status of Women committee  One of the things that I've worked on for a number of years, as I'm sure other people around the table have as well, is education and outreach. Certainly with young children there is a certain digital literacy and media literacy that's required so they can navigate through all

Status of Women committee  Actually, in the research it correlates with less pro-social behaviour. Certainly I've done research with kids who have said if their parents or their family members are spying on them, that means they can't talk to them. It can shut down spaces for dialogue. I think part of it

Status of Women committee  And you are her greatest resource. You create conditions where hopefully she will come and talk to you about it and you open up those spaces. I think that does come with outreach to parents. It comes with education for kids, it comes with creating spaces for dialogue.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think a lot of parents feel totally overwhelmed by this. Dialogues with parents are often very effective. Nobody loves their kids more than their parents, and yet it's very difficult to talk to their kids about this. I found as a parent myself, do I talk about dieting? D

Status of Women committee  France did that.