Through the Healthy Menus Choices Act, 2015 SO c 7, Ontario has recently enacted legislation to fight childhood obesity, among other goals. This Act requires all food-service chains with 20 or more Ontario locations to post on the premises the calorie counts of the food and drinks. According to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Dr. Eric Hoskins, the goal is to help people in Ontario to “make informed, healthy decisions for themselves and their families.” In 2017, the Toronto Star reported that the Freshii restaurant chain in Ontario (which serves salads, quinoa bowls, and wraps, for example) was not complying with this new law because, while it posts calorie counts online, it does not do so in its restaurants. Freshii, whose motto is “count nutrients, not calories,” regards the Ontario law as “overly-simplistic.” Dr. David Jenkins with the University of Toronto agrees with this kind of assessment, observing that calorie count is likely less important than the nature of the food itself, adding: “I’m more interested in what McDonald’s are doing.” Meanwhile, Freshii has recently agreed to “meet the minimum compliance as required [by the legislation].”Do you agree with the calorie counting legislation? Why or why not?