Health Minister Petitpas Taylor says new Canada Food Guide creators were not influenced by industry groups

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor talks about the government's Healthy Eating Strategy, its response to the opioids crisis, and the national pharmacare strategy report due in the spring.

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured last week in her Hill office, says the new Canada Food Guide is more modern. 'We've been hard at work when it comes to the healthy eating strategy for over a number of years now, and this is certainly one of the key pillars, the Canadian Food Guide.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY Emily Haws

February 4, 2019

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says she was lobbied by industry groups on the newly-released Canada Food Guide, but says the people who created it were not. "The people who put together the Food Guide did not receive any meetings from lobby groups at all," Ms. Petitpas Taylor (Moncton-Riv...

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