Department of Nutritional Sciences (Mulligan, L'Abbé), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Faculty of Public Health and Policy (Jawad), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; School of Epidemiology and Public Health (Potvin Kent), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; School of Nutrition (Vanderlee), Université Laval, Québec, Que.
CMAJ Open. 2021 Mar 22;9(1):E280-E287. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200086. Print 2021 Jan-Mar.
Canadian federal restrictions on food marketing to children (children's marketing) were proposed in 2016 as Bill S-228, the , which subsequently died on the parliamentary table. This study quantified the interactions (meetings, correspondence and lobbying) related to Bill S-228 and children's marketing by different stakeholders with the federal government.
Interactions between all stakeholders and government related to children's marketing and Bill S-228 (Sept. 1, 2016-Sept. 30, 2019) were analyzed. These included the "Meetings and correspondence on healthy eating" database, detailing interactions between stakeholders and Health Canada related to nutrition policies; and Canada's Registry of Lobbyists, reporting activities of paid lobbyists. We categorized the interactions by stakeholder type (industry, nonindustry and mixed), and analyzed the number and type of interactions with different government offices.
We analyzed 139 meetings, 65 lobbying registrants, 215 lobbying registrations and 3418 communications related to children's marketing and Bill S-228. Most interactions were from industry stakeholders, including 84.2% of meetings (117/139), 81.5% of lobbying registrants (53/65), 83.3% of lobbying registrations (179/215) and 83.9% of communications (2866/3418). Most interactions (> 80%) in the highest-ranking government offices were by industry.
Industry stakeholders interacted with government more often, more broadly and with higher ranking offices than nonindustry stakeholders on subjects related to children's marketing and Bill S-228. Although further research is needed to analyze the nature of the discourse around children's marketing, it is apparent that industry viewpoints were more prominent than those of nonindustry stakeholders.
2016 年，加拿大联邦政府提出了限制食品针对儿童营销的规定（儿童营销），作为第 228 号法案（Bill S-228），该法案随后在议会夭折。本研究量化了不同利益相关者与联邦政府就 Bill S-228 和儿童营销进行的互动（会议、通信和游说）。
分析了所有利益相关者与政府在儿童营销和 Bill S-228 方面的互动（2016 年 9 月 1 日至 2019 年 9 月 30 日）。其中包括“健康饮食会议和通信”数据库，详细记录了利益相关者与加拿大卫生部之间有关营养政策的互动；以及加拿大游说登记处，报告付费游说者的活动。我们按利益相关者类型（行业、非行业和混合）对互动进行分类，并分析了与不同政府部门的互动数量和类型。
我们分析了 139 次会议、65 名游说登记人、215 次游说登记和 3418 次与儿童营销和 Bill S-228 相关的通信。大多数互动来自行业利益相关者，包括会议的 84.2%（117/139）、游说登记人的 81.5%（53/65）、游说登记的 83.3%（179/215）和通信的 83.9%（2866/3418）。在级别最高的政府办公室中，大多数互动（>80%）是由行业进行的。
在与儿童营销和 Bill S-228 相关的主题上，与非行业利益相关者相比，行业利益相关者与政府的互动更频繁、更广泛、与级别更高的办公室互动更多。尽管需要进一步研究来分析围绕儿童营销的讨论性质，但显然行业观点比非行业利益相关者更为突出。
