On June 6, 2024, the Assemblée nationale du Québec created the Select Parliamentary Committee on the Impacts of Screens and Social Media on Young People's Health and Development.
Between now and May 2025, the members of the Select Committee will focus on the issues under consideration, in particular by consulting the general public (including young people) and experts. They will then submit a report to the Assemblée nationale no later than May 30, 2025.
Young people, parents, grandparents, citizens concerned about the issue, would you like to:
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take part in the Committee’s work? |
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give your opinion and make your reality known? |
On January 30 and 31 and on February 3, 4 and 5, 2025, the Committee held the second phase of special consultations and public hearings at the Assemblée nationale to explore certain issues in greater depth and to hear from new people or organizations.
Some forty experts participated in the first phase of special consultations and public hearings in September 2024.
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about your opinion on the issue of young people’s use of screens. Use the online form Commenting on a Subject under Study.
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.
