BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250929T064149EDT-6621DnvOUT@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250929T104149Z DESCRIPTION:The 91Ö±˛Ą Research Group on Health and Law is pleased to invit e you to its 2014 Interdisciplinary Panel\, entitled Banning food ads aime d at children: Is Quebec’s regulatory model still cutting-edge? A healthy \, tasty lunch will be served\, but space is limited to 50 participants. K indly RSVP to rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca. To members of the Barreau du QuĂ©be c: approval for continuing education credits is pending. Speakers Bill J effery\, National Coordinator\, Centre for Science in the Public Interest Dr. Kristin Voigt\, Institute for Health and Social Policy and Dept of Ph ilosophy\, 91Ö±˛Ą Dr. Monique Potvin Kent\, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences\, University of Ottawa Abstract For more than 30 years\, Quebec has had some of the strictest consumer protection legisl ation in the world\, banning commercial advertising directed at children u nder the age of 13. The Supreme Court of Canada famously upheld the ban as a justifiable restriction on freedom of speech in the 1989 decision in Ir win Toy v. Quebec (Attorney General)\, chiefly because of children’s uniqu e vulnerability to advertising. A current private member’s bill would see k to expand Quebec’s approach to Ontario. Further jurisdictions also look to Quebec as a model. Yet\, restrictions on food advertising to children c ontinue to attract controversy\, with disputes over their effectiveness in curbing diet-related illness among children\; their scope\; their flexibi lity in the age of new forms of media and marketing\; and their value in r elation to industry-led approaches. This interdisciplinary panel will exp lore legal\, ethical\, social science and policy dimensions of restriction s on food advertising to children\, with a focus on the role of evidence i n crafting public health policy and regulating industry practice. Biograp hies Bill Jeffery is the National Coordinator of the Centre for Science i n the Public Interest (CSPI)\, a non-profit health advocacy organization s pecializing in nutrition and food safety with offices in Ottawa\, Washingt on\, and Dallas\, Texas\, and staff in Toronto. CSPI’s food law reform adv ocacy is funded by 100\,000 subscribers to it advertisement-free Nutrition Action Healthletter\, on average\, one subscriber within a one block radi us of every Canadian street corner. Born in Toronto\, raised in New Brunsw ick\, Mr. Jeffery is a graduate of the University of Alberta Faculty of La w\, earned a BA (Hons) from Dalhousie University\, and articled with the P ublic Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) in Ottawa. He is a member of the Ont ario Bar and lives in Ottawa with his family. Dr. Kristin Voigt is an Ass istant Professor at 91Ö±˛Ą\, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Philosophy. She received her D.Ph il. in political philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2008 and has held post-doctoral positions at 91Ö±˛Ą\, Harvard\, and Lancaster Universit y. Professor Voigt’s research focuses on egalitarian theories of justice a nd the links between philosophy and social policy. Her recent and ongoing research interests include conceptions and measures of health and health i nequality\; the use of incentives to improve health outcomes\; (childhood) obesity\; and smoking and tobacco control. Her work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Public Health\, the New England Journal of Medicine and Public Health Ethics. She has also co-authored a b ook entitled Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues\, forthcoming wi th Oxford University Press in 2014. Dr. Monique Potvin Kent is a Replacem ent and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Interdiscipli nary School of Health Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Population Health\, a M aster’s degree in Psychology\, and Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Po litical Science. She was an NSERC Visiting Fellow at the Public Health Age ncy of Canada in the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control whe re she completed post-doctoral research in obesity prevention. Dr. Potvin Kent also has a clinical background in eating disorders and cognitive beha vioural therapy. She currently conducts research on policies that influenc e childhood obesity. For the past eight years\, her research has examined children’s exposure to food and beverage marketing in Canada and the nutri tional quality of this marketing on television.   DTSTART:20140122T174500Z DTEND:20140122T191500Z LOCATION:NCDH Room 312\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9 \, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:Banning food ads aimed at children: Is Quebec’s regulatory model st ill cutting-edge? URL:/law/channels/event/banning-food-ads-aimed-childre n-quebec%E2%80%99s-regulatory-model-still-cutting-edge-232375 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR