Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am just hoping that there is a way to bring a focus to the issues such as nutrition and diet. Everybody talks about smoking, drinking, drugs. I think there is a certain level of awareness out there that these are not healthy choices.
What I think there is less awareness and recognition of is that there are people who have, probably most of their life, very unhealthy eating habits. I really think that awareness and the focus on this needs to start with the young people, with young parents as part of the early childhood development, working with family support. I think this is a key component that has to be raised with -- I do not think any time is too early to start that.
Like I said, I know that it is probably thought to be one of the less pressing issues, but I have gone to meetings with folks and sat and watched them down three or four cans of pop in a short meeting. I just do not think it is registering, the kinds of potential health risks there are in that. I think we have just been a lot more focused on the more obvious ones.
I would like to work with the Minister, whether it is through the schools and coming up with healthy lunch or breakfast programs, cooking classes, whatever. I would like to, while we are trying to indoctrinate our young people against the risk of things like smoking, I think we also need to share with them the importance of eating properly over the length of their lives. Just a comment. Thank you.
