On April 22, 2025, the Select Committee on the Impacts of Screens and Social Media on Young People’s Health and Development tabled an interim report in the Assemblée nationale du Québec.
The report concerns the ban of cellphones, earphones, and other personal mobile devices in Québec elementary and secondary schools.
From fall 2024 to spring 2025, the Committee heard some 70 persons and organizations in the context of special consultations and public hearings.
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During the weeks of November 4 and 18, 2024, the members of the Committee toured some 20 schools to meet with elementary and secondary school students in six regions: Bas-Saint-Laurent, Capitale-Nationale, Côte-Nord, Gaspésie, Grand Montréal and Outaouais.
The members of the Committee talked with young people from Elementary 5 to Secondary 5 in schools representing a diversity of milieux, including public and private schools, and Francophone and Anglophone schools.
The Committee is made up of MNAs (parliamentarians) from all the parliamentary groups represented in the Assemblée nationale.
Its steering committee, which is responsible for organizing the Committee's work, also includes MNAs from these four political parties.
