Promised Ad Ban In Peril

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor yesterday said she’s disappointed cabinet will not fulfill a 2015 promise to ban junk food advertising to children. Access To Information memos indicate Petitpas Taylor’s department privately feared lawsuits if it enforced the ban that would cost advertisers nearly a billion a year: “I really thought it was going to be okay.”

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