Liberals’ Healthy Eating Strategy serves up a table of junk food

The over-reaching servings boil down to a health minister checking off a box in her mandate letter without the high-quality scientific evidence to back her case.

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured, needs to reach out to farmers and other stakeholders before formalizing the Healthy Eating Strategy, argues Conservative MP Larry Miller. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP LARRY MILLER

February 28, 2018

The prime minister’s father, Pierre Trudeau, once said, “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” The government may be good at keeping out of our bedrooms, but with the Healthy Eating Strategy, the kitchen is another story. The Liberals are serving up a table of junk ...

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