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Where, I ask you, would a columnist be without ludicrous private member’s bills? On Tuesday our paper ran a short item about Ontario MPP France Gélinas and her proposed Temptation Be Gone Act, now before the provincial parliament as Bill 263. Gélinas, the New Democratic health critic, has decided that grocery retailers have been having altogether too pleasant a time of it over the past year or so, and that the perfect trial balloon to launch in March of 2021 is a new regulatory scheme explicitly designed to cut into their profits. It is not as though these devious monsters have just enabled us all to keep eating (or, indeed, to gain weight in our pandemic warrens) while supply chains were taking a year-long beating.
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Ontario Nickel Belt New Democrat MPP and opposition health critic France Gélinas wants people to stop buying so much junk food.
Gélinas has introduced a bill at Queen’s Park to remove the tempting racks of junk food and other treats with high fat, high sugar and high sodium content that are often located near cash register checkouts.
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“Since the pandemic started, lines at the cash register have gotten longer, as have the waits,” Gélinas said.
Ontario politician trying to stop stores from selling junk food at checkout
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An Ontario MPP is trying to discourage the promotion of unhealthy foods in stores throughout the province with a new bill that would limit which products can be put on display right next to the cash register.
NDP MPP for Nickle Belt France Gélinas, the official opposition critic for health, recently tabled the Temptation Be Gone Act in honour of Nutrition Month, and it allows the government to make regulations that restrict the sales and marketing of treats that are high in fat and sugar including where these products can and can t be located in stores.