Centre for Health Science and Law / Centre pour les Sciences de la Santé et le Droit

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Registration: 14 of 14 (2024-05-16 to present)

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Subject matters	Details	Categories
Child Services, Consumer Issues, Health	Advertising to Children: Restricting advertising directed at children as proposed in the Government's 2021 election platform	Regulation, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Government Procurement, Health, International Development, Justice and Law Enforcement, Taxation and Finance	Advocate improvements to the federal government response to COVID-19 to minimize the risk to health and the federal covernment's contribution to the negotiations of the World Health Organization pandemic prevention and response treaty.	Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
Child Services, Consumer Issues, Health, International Development, Justice and Law Enforcement	Advocate legislative or regulatory amendments to ensure that the Government of Canada implements guidance from the "World Health Organization in relation to the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes" likely by means of amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations, possibly with a mandate from Parliament.	Regulation, Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Consumer Issues, Health	Advocate measures to reduce consumption of alcohol by adults, chiefly by limits on advertising, limits on price promotions, and mandatory health risk warning labels. Advocate investigations into the use of packaging, refrigeration, flavouring, pricing, and advertising to promote consumption of under-aged consumers and the extent to which school curriculum does and could reduce risk of chronic and heavy episodic drinking. Advocate the regular publication of national and provincial sales statistics (including volumes of alcohol and sales), and quantify the extent to which government and private sector parties benefit and suffer from the consumption of alcohol consumption.	Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
Child Services, Consumer Issues, Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	Advocate public health and conflict of interest safeguards in the formation of a national food policy, including a national school food program.	Regulation, Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Child Services, Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	Advocate that the federal government implement measures to fulfill its commitments under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially in the context of its ongoing periodic review, including measures to regulate the marketing of breast-milk substitutes, to restrict advertising directed at children, to implement a universal healthy school food program, to mandate Child Rights Impact Assessments in relation to all government law reform and program spending measures.	Regulation, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
Consumer Issues, Health, Intellectual Property, International Development, International Relations, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement	Advocate that the Government of Canada support the negotiation and eventual adoption of the United Nations Human Right's Council's "Legally Binding Instrument" (LBI) on business and human rights, and the proposed Convention on the Right to Development, including the right to health, and the inclusion of a corporate-human-rights-abuser-pay principle in the replenishment of the International Victims [Advocacy] Fund by codifying a 2% levy on lawsuits relying on the LBI to be paid to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and broad authority to regulating the marketing of food and alcohol, as well as support the improvement of water management infrastructure (for drinking, cooking, sanitation, irrigation, and electric power generation) in Low- and Middle-Income-Countries.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation, Policies or Program
Agriculture, Climate, Consumer Issues, Health, Internal Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement	Canada's Food Guide: Advocate revisions to Canada's Food Guide, 2007 and 2019 Snapshot to urge Health Canada to revise the dietary advice therein to better comport with scientific understanding about the relationship between diet and disease and ensure that food industry interests do not undermine the advice, particularly ensuring that the full and concise versions of the Guide better counsel Canadians than the over-simplified and partly misleading Snapshot published in January 2019.	Policies or Program, Regulation
Child Services, Consumer Issues, Health	Food Dyes: Urge Health Canada to revoke the approvals of food dyes for which evidence indicates they are possible human carcinogens (e.g., ammonia process caramel used in soft drinks) or exacerbate the symptoms of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder.	Regulation
Federal-Provincial Relations, Health, Taxation and Finance	Food Taxes: Amend definition of "Basic Groceries" in the Excise Tax Act to ensure that food taxing policies promote, rather than discourage healthy eating.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	Generally, enforcement of food-related law in comparison to other federal laws in light of enforcement statistics	Policies or Program
Agriculture, Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	Institutional Conflicts of Interest: Implementing safeguards against institutional conflicts of interest in federal law as, for instance, elaborated in the World Health Organization Framework for Interaction with Non-State Actors, May 2016 and "Technical Report: Addressing and Managing Conflicts of Interest in the Planning and Delivery of Nutrition Programmes at Country Level," October 2015	Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Climate, Health, International Development, International Trade	International Health and Trade Policy: Urge the Government of Canada (esp. through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada) to adopt health-promoting positions in negotiating global standard-setting by the World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization's Codex Alimentarius Commission, particularly warning labels on alcoholic beverages and foods that make major contributions to greenhouse gases, such as ruminant animals internationally and in Canada.	Policies or Program, Regulation
Consumer Issues, Health	Marketing and Safety Safeguards for Energy Drinks: Improving the regulation of energy drinks, the current regulation of which is described in "Energy Drinks: An Assessment of the Potential Health Risks in the Canadian Context, 2013", namely the Supplemented Food Regulations.	Regulation, Policies or Program
Consumer Issues, Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	Natural Health Products (NHPs): Revise or better enforce regulations to ensure regulations provide adequate safety standards and acceptable standards of evidence for verifying health claims related to NHPs.	Policies or Program, Regulation
Agriculture, Consumer Issues, Health, Justice and Law Enforcement	Propose revisions to the regulation of pesticides and toxic substances in Canada, including but not limited to lead, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos, and changes to the oversight of the Pest Management Regulatory Authority to ensure that evaluations and re-evaluations of pesticides are conducted in a timely, transparent manner, properly consider all available evidence (including studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals), and apply conflict-of-interest safeguards to supplier-sponsored studies, and other measures to protect public health, occupational health, and the environment.	Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
Consumer Issues, Health	Sodium Reduction in Processed Food: Reducing the amount of sodium added to food as proposed in the Government's election platform	Regulation
Health, International Relations, Justice and Law Enforcement	Urge the federal government to improve reporting and compliance with international human rights law, particularly in connection with Canada's Universal Periodic Review through the United Nations Human Rights Council.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
Budget, Child Services, Constitutional Issues, Consumer Issues, Federal-Provincial Relations, Health, International Development, Justice and Law Enforcement, Labour, Taxation and Finance	Urge various law reforms and program innovations to facilitate the government's poverty reduction strategy, especially in relation to nutrition and affordability of healthy food particularly in relation to the work of the National Advisory Council on Poverty housed at Employment and Social Development Canada.	Regulation, Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution