Q-1177 , 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to childhood obesity in Canada and federal initiatives to address it: (a) what is the most recent rate of childhood obesity in Canada, broken down by (i) age group, (ii) province or territory, (iii) sex, (iv) population type; (b) what specific federal programs and initiatives target the prevention of childhood obesity, and what is the annual expenditure on each; (c) what evaluations have been conducted on each program identified in (b), and what were the findings; (d) what assessment, if any, has the government conducted of the long-term health and economic impacts of current rates of childhood obesity, including the projected rates of (i) type 2 diabetes, (ii) cardiovascular disease, (iii) other chronic conditions in adulthood; and (e) what targets, if any, has the federal government set for reducing rates of childhood obesity, and what is the current progress against those targets?