Feds shouldn’t take food industry’s promise of good behaviour at face value

Despite voluntary code, the industry will continue to bombard Canadian children every year with millions of ads for unhealthy ultra-processed food and sugary drinks.

If the food industry really wants to help improve Canadians’ health, they will embrace a government-mandated advertising ban, writes Monique Potvin Kent.Unsplash photograph by Alexander Sergienko

Opinion

BY MONIQUE POTVIN KENT

April 17, 2023

My neighbours and I have gotten together and decided that since we’re all upstanding citizens, we will ask the federal government to not bother passing any new laws that affect us.

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