Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister: what would get obesity to the point, as she says -- I suppose they call it morbid obesity -- where it affects the well-being of the person? What would set that apart in the department’s policy guidelines from any other illness that someone could have? I don’t understand why this thing would be treated any differently than any other disease people have. Maybe some people are overweight because they are addicted to food, but if we were going to start telling people they couldn’t receive services

because they had an addiction, that we wouldn’t be providing service, people with substance addictions or tobacco. There is no end where it would end. Does the Minister concur that obesity can be a medical condition that should be covered by this government? Thank you.