Montreal moves to ban sale of sugary drinks inside city buildings
Montreal is moving to ban the sale of sugary drinks in all of its municipal buildings and one of the city councillors behind the initiative hopes other communities will follow suit.
A motion that was passed this week aims to prohibit soda, sports drinks and other sweetened beverages from being sold at municipal installations such as administrative buildings, libraries and arenas.
The ban developed from a motion tabled by longtime Coun. Marvin Rotrand.
In 2014, he introduced one that called on Quebec to give the city the power to tax sugary beverages, but it didn’t have consensus. This time, his motion asking Ottawa to come up with a tax on sugary drinks had broader support, with public health in mind.