Restricting the marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children (Motion #60-16)

Moved by Huska – Pilon. Approved by the Sudbury & District Board of Health, November 24, 2016.

WHEREAS children are particularly susceptible to commercial marketing and need to be protected from marketing influences on their food and beverages choices; and

WHEREAS Health Canada, through the newly introduced multi-year Healthy Eating Strategy, is committed, following a review of the evidence and consultation with experts in the field, to introducing restrictions on the commercial marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children; and

WHEREAS the Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition’s Ottawa Principles outline the components required for effective policies and regulations on any form of commercial advertisement or otherwise promotion of food and beverages to children age 16 years and younger; and

WHEREAS the Association of Local Public Health Agencies endorsed The Ottawa Principles, and has written a letter of support for Senator Nancy Green-Raine’s Bill S-228, Child Health Protection Act, which if passed would ban food and beverage marketing to children under 13 years of age; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health encourage Members of Parliament to endorse Bill S-228, and commend the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, for introducing the multi-year Healthy Eating Strategy; and

FURTHER THAT this motion be forwarded to local, provincial and federal health and non-health sector partners as appropriate.

This item was last modified on December 22, 2016