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Childhood Obesity Targeted

March 29, 2012 permalink

Dalton McGuinty has plans for your children. Tucked away in this week's Ontario budget announcement is the statement:

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is moving forward with a plan to transform the health care system that will help manage expenditure growth at an average of 2.1 per cent a year, over the next three years, by:

  • Keeping Ontarians healthy by reducing childhood obesity and combating smoking.

Source: Ontario budget (pdf, page 3) local copy
Thanks to Anne Patterson for finding this item.

Ontario's children's aid societies will be eager to help enforcing this plan by seizing overweight children and placing them on half-rations. They can tag the children special needs to justify enhanced funding for the deficient diets.

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