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Bill 61, Eating Disorders Awareness Week Act, 2020

Andrew, Jill

Royal Assent received. Statutes of Ontario 2020,

chapter 32

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

This Explanatory Note was written as a

reader’s aid to Bill 61 and does not form part of the law.

Bill 61 has been enacted as

Chapter 32 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2020.

The

Bill proclaims the week beginning February 1 in each year as Eating Disorders

Awareness Week.

Bill 61 2020

Act to proclaim Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Preamble

Understanding

how the development of eating disorders, also referred to as eating problems,

and access to treatment and prevention resources are influenced by structural

conditions and the social determinants of health is crucial to promoting

greater awareness of and providing effective education on eating disorders.

The

term eating disorders suggests that disordered eating is solely a mental health

and individualized phenomena. Concepts such as “eating problems,” as coined by

sociologist Dr. Becky W. Thompson, allows for a more nuanced understanding of eating

disorders or problems as responses to sociocultural phenomena.

For

example, factors such as visual culture, food and income security, access to

housing, access to healthcare, acculturation and mental health supports influence

the development, trajectory and treatment of eating disorders.

Education

on body-related issues such as size and appearance-based discrimination and

harassment, body-shaming and bullying also promotes greater awareness of how

these factors contribute to the development of eating disorders.

Common

assumptions of who gets eating disorders leave out many complexities. Anyone

can develop an eating disorder, and eating disorders impact different people in

different ways.

Sharing

stories of how populations such as Indigenous, Black and racialized women and

girls, immigrants, queer people, transgender people, people with disabilities, fat

people, people with chronic illness, men and boys experience eating disorders

is crucial to promoting greater awareness of diverse experiences of eating

disorders.

Proclaiming

Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Ontario makes a powerful statement about the

value of building awareness around healthy relationships with our bodies and

the need for culturally relevant and responsive resources for treatments,

education and prevention of eating disorders.

Therefore,

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of

the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Eating

Disorders Awareness Week

The

week beginning February 1 in each year is proclaimed as Eating Disorders

Awareness Week.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Eating

Disorders Awareness Week Act, 2020 .

Bill 61 Original (PDF)

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill proclaims the week beginning February 1 in each year as Eating Disorders

Awareness Week.

Bill 61 2018

Act to proclaim Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Preamble

Understanding

how the development of eating disorders, also referred to as eating problems,

and access to treatment and prevention resources are influenced by structural

conditions and the social determinants of health is crucial to promoting

greater awareness of and providing effective education on eating disorders.

The

term eating disorders suggests that disordered eating is solely a mental health

and individualized phenomena. Concepts such as “eating problems,” as coined by

sociologist Dr. Becky W. Thompson, allows for a more nuanced understanding of eating

disorders or problems as responses to sociocultural phenomena.

For

example, factors such as visual culture, food and income security, access to

housing, access to healthcare, acculturation and mental health supports

influence the development, trajectory and treatment of eating disorders.

Education

on body-related issues such as size and appearance-based discrimination and

harassment, body-shaming and bullying also promotes greater awareness of how

these factors contribute to the development of eating disorders.

Common

assumptions of who gets eating disorders leave out many complexities. Anyone

can develop an eating disorder, and eating disorders impact different people in

different ways.

Sharing

stories of how populations such as Indigenous, Black and racialized women and

girls, immigrants, queer people, transgender people, people with disabilities, fat

people, people with chronic illness, men and boys experience eating disorders

is crucial to promoting greater awareness of diverse experiences of eating

disorders.

Proclaiming

Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Ontario makes a powerful statement about the

value of building awareness around healthy relationships with our bodies and

the need for culturally relevant and responsive resources for treatments,

education and prevention of eating disorders.

Therefore,

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of

the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Eating

Disorders Awareness Week

The

week beginning February 1 in each year is proclaimed as Eating Disorders

Awareness Week.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Eating Disorders

Awareness Week Act, 2018 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

December 8, 2020

Royal Assent

Royal Assent received

December 3, 2020

Third Reading

Vote

Carried

December 3, 2020

Third Reading

Debated

December 2, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered for Third Reading

December 2, 2020

Second Reading

Reported without amendment

December 1, 2020

Second Reading

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly

November 19, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly

November 19, 2020

Second Reading

Discharge the Order of referral to Committee

December 6, 2018

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on General Government

December 6, 2018

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

December 6, 2018

Second Reading

Debated

November 21, 2018

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

November 21, 2018

Committee

Second Reading

December 6, 2018

Ms. Jill Andrew, Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam, Mr. John Fraser, Mr. Joel Harden, Mr. Sheref Sabawy, Ms. Rima Berns-McGown, Mrs. Gila Martow, Ms. Teresa J. Armstrong, Mr. Deepak Anand

December 6, 2018

Declared carried. Referred to the Standing Committee on General Government.

November 19, 2020

Order of referral to the Standing Committee on General Government discharged. Referred to Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly.

Committee

Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly

December 1, 2020

December 2, 2020

Reported to the House without amendment. Ordered for third reading.

Third Reading

December 3, 2020

Ms. Jill Andrew, Hon. Michael A. Tibollo, Mr. Joel Harden, Mme Lucille Collard, Mrs. Robin Martin

Declared carried.

Royal Assent

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

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