What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get much more personal than that.

You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions, ... What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal.

People should have a choice whether they want to engage in risky activities.

It's not for the government to say that's not a legitimate trade-off to make. Canadians need to question the idea that just because something implicates health that government intervention is justified.

People may very well choose to trade off years of their life, or the possibility of disease or injury, in exchange for the current pleasure, excitement, or stress relief they get (from food),

What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore the government has to coercively change what they want.